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• It's frequently said that there is 'no reason' for such 'military-style weapons' as the Bushmaster to be available to citizens. But isn't that a lot like saying there is no reason why any civilian should drive a military-style car like the Hummer?

  Glenn Beck

  Military, Car, Style

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cutting, Understanding, Bombs

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Israel, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Doe, Target

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

  Steve Forbes

  Military, Men, Squad

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

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  "Talk Asia" with Veronica Pedrosa, edition.cnn.com. August 10, 2005.

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• About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Born

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• Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession is war, understands that peace must be enforced by superior military might. The certainty of defeat is the only effective deterrent we can use to maintain peace. Furthermore, we can be strong without being aggressive.

  Barry Goldwater

  Strong, Military, War

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• I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  M.I.A.

  War, Voice, Support

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• Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

  Jose Saramago

  Things In Life, Dresses, Naked

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 92), 2003.

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• My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

  Idi Amin

  Country, Government, Vices

  Attributed in "Uganda, the Human Rights Situation" by United States Congress. Senate, (p. 13), 1978.

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• 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 being a civilian - except, of course, that I believe that policemen are just special sorts of civilians. Things like how hard it is to hold someone that doesn't want to be held. This is the kind of thing that is worth knowing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.

  Joe Biden

  War, Stupid, Mean

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Korea, Giving

  "Ann Coulter: Bill Clinton "was a very good rapist"". www.mediamatters.org. January 12, 2005.

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• I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Loss, Unnecessary, Enough

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

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• [A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.

  George Orwell

  Would Be, Use, World

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Real, War

  Al-Ahram Weekly interview, 2001.

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• Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Fighting, People, Causes

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Class, Knowing

  Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (1997). “Pure war”, Semiotext

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• We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections - knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists - has been compromised.

  John Boehner

  Country, Military, Knowing

  "BOEHNER: Obama Intentionally Kept The Bowe Bergdahl Prisoner Swap Secret" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2014.

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• The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Army, Israel, Enemy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Responsible, Should, Hamas

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.

  Richard Engel

  Mistake, People, Drones

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