Combatants Quotes
38 quotes by 33 authors
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The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern…
— Winston Churchill
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Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood…
— Ayelet Shaked
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No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for…
— John Yoo
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Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on…
— Linda Chavez
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Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
— William Cowper
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And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
— Pierre Corneille
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The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern…
— Winston Churchill
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Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
— Mitt Romney
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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as…
— Salman Rushdie
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To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race.…
— George Clooney
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When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show…
— James Bovard
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The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before…
— Unknown Author
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Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up…
— Yuri Orlov
Who Wrote These Combatants Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 38 Combatants Quotes, led by these top contributors: