Cities Quote by Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

— Peter Maurer

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the…

— Winston Churchill

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and…

— Sebastian Junger

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

— Sun Tzu

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

— Walid Muallem

I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable…

— N. T. Wright

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

— Sun Tzu

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

“Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.”

— Sun Tzu

There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly.…

— Kofi Annan

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

— Gijs de Vries

The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life.

— Donald Trump