Affected Quote by Martin Van Creveld

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the…

— Jeremy Scahill

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

— George Will

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into…

— Robert McNamara

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section…

— Martin Van Creveld

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if…

— Robert McNamara

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who…

— Jan Eliasson

The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and…

— Bashar al-Assad

There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our…

— Naomi Wolf

Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be…

— John A. Lejeune

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas.…

— Mike Jackson

Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from…

— Terry Pratchett