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Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

— Jody Williams

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number…

— Jody Williams

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has…

— Kofi Annan

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine…

— Jody Williams

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood…

— Jody Williams

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between…

— Jody Williams

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

— Heather Mills

It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt…

— Angelina Jolie

Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all…

— Jody Williams

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but…

— Kofi Annan

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer…

— Bruce Sterling