Citizens Quote by Edward Gibbon

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

— Stuart Symington

Individuals? Or members of society? That's what the right to die is about.

— Julian Baggini

The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

— Peter Saunders

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death…

— Guy de Maupassant

The right to die can easily become the duty to die.

— Peter Saunders

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

— Joe Strummer

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

— Mike Schmidt

“When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called patriotism.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

— Elbert Hubbard

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

— Helen Prejean

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to…

— Joe Slovo

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

— Richard M. Nixon