Away Quote by 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 are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Heather Mills

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

— Siegfried Sassoon

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

— Seishiro Itagaki

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

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

— Benito Mussolini