Civilians Quotes

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

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Terrorism, Killing

  "9-11". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2001.

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• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Organization, Political, Target

  "Ground Zero mosque' imam sets the record straight on 'Hannity". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2012.

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• In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, War, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Pay The Price, Pay

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Marine, Trying

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

  Marcus Luttrell

  War, Home, People

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• The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Illustration, Target, Classic

  Interview with Paula Zahn, edition.cnn.com. May 30, 2002.

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, War, Cities

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Leader, Religion

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.7, Crown Forum

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• I don't give a damn about the civilians.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Giving, Politics, Damn

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• After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

  Audie Murphy

  Dog, War, Army

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• Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men.

  Jan Egeland

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Israel

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• Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is - and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Games, People

  "JON STEWART Offers Brilliant, Heartfelt Reason For Releasing Osama Bin Laden Death Photos" by Noah Davis, www.businessinsider.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with an eye on the wishes of our "coalition partners." It has been fought to assuage the Arab "street." It has been fought to satisfy the diplomats rather than the generals... Why have we not loosed the B-52s and the B-2s to carpet-bomb Taliban positions? And why are we giving the Taliban sanctuary in their cities? We could drop leaflets giving civilians 48 hours to evacuate, after which the cities become legitimate military targets.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Military, War, Eye

  "Not Enough Might" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2001.

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• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Technology

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• I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Military, War, Men

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.115, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, People, Majority

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Taken, Mean, Resolution

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• Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.

  J. William Fulbright

  Strong, Airplane, Israel

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

  Stuart Symington

  Ifs

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• I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in these pictures. War is a concentrated unit in the world and these things are clearly and cleanly seen. Things like race prejudice, poverty, hatred and bigotry are sprawling things in civilian life, and not so easy to define as war.

  W. Eugene Smith

  War, Believe, Race

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• There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

  George W. Bush

  Vets, Population, Different

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• In Aleppo, Mr. Putin has directed his military to conduct a devastating campaign. He's targeted schools, markets, not just assisted Syrians in doing it, his military has targeted schools and markets and other civilian infrastructure. It's resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, School, Campaigns

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race. It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged.

  George Clooney

  Song, Peace, Jobs

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