Quotes of: Civilians Keyword

Lentulus Batiatus: But I'm a civilian. I'm more of a civilian than most civilians.

Spartacus

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Stuart Symington

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

The doctor who heads the trauma unit [at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany] wants to tell a happy story, too. He tells me that war is good for civilian medicine. I've read reports that make the same point: in peacetime, the cutting edge of...

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story

Civilian casualties?” I asked. “There always are.

Ancillary Justice

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

Barry Goldwater

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

Neil Sheehan

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. I mean, that to me is very clear.

Mike Jackson

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is ...

Heinlein Robert A.

Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while refining the legacy of a won galactic war.

The Hydrogen Sonata

Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wound...

Ban Ki-moon

We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state also targets such victims; during the 20th century, the rate of civilian deaths rose sharply and now ...

Karen Armstrong

I'm a civilian, a citizen.

David Remnick

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

Jimmy Kimmel

Allen agreed, writing, "If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. I...

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

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Michael Nutter

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

David Petraeus

No, the United States does not target civilians.

Douglas Feith