Children Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

— 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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

— Anwar Sadat

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

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

— Erwin Rommel

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of…

— Robert A. Heinlein