Attacks Quote by Gijs de Vries

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of…

— Alan Dershowitz

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why…

— Emily Thornberry

I think war should be illegal.

— Richard Engel

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

— Charles Evans Hughes

I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable…

— Ward Churchill

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy…

— Fred Woodworth

If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the…

— Patrick Leahy

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians,…

— Howard Zinn

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

— Howard Zinn

Under no circumstance must we allow anyone to incite violence against our nation. That is not acceptable.

— Shatrughan Sinha