Quotes of: Civilian-casualties Keyword

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

Barton Gellman

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Joshua Slocum

It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.

Stanley Hauerwas

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Alan Greenspan

You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.

Vladimir Putin

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Rachel Corrie

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

Mohammed Morsi

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Caleb Carr

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Paul Fussell

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

Peter T. King

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

Tom Paulin

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

M.F. Moonzajer

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

Mark Dayton

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

David Spade

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

Hillary Clinton

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Alan Dershowitz

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

Al Franken

the elite use socialism as a consolidation and control mechanism. Allen describes Socialism as "a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world." He points out that this is accomplished, ...

The Hidden Evil: The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualt...

Paul Cellucci