Civilians Quotes - Page 6

• People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Smart, Government, People

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• The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

  William O. Douglas

  Military, Men, America

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• The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives.

  Mark Riebling

  Military, Historical, Mind

  "Rumsfeld’s Spy Unit". "To the Point" with Warren Olney, NPR, markriebling.blogs.com. October 31, 2002.

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• Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not "unintentional" when you know it is inevitable.

  Ilana Mercer

  Israel, Giving, Doe

  "Standing Armies Commandeered by Cowards". www.ilanamercer.com. November 23, 2012.

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• It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long - relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world.

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Responsibility, America

  Speech to U.S. Global Leadership Campaign (Washington, D.C.), July 15, 2008.

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• GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance, for producing behavioural alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States. Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. The spacing of GWEN transmitters 200 miles apart across the United States would allow such specific frequencies to be 'tailored' to the geomagnetic-field strength in each GWEN area.

  Robert O. Becker

  Average, Ions, Fields

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• I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent
  civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this
  sad and useless national tragedy? If one death can
  atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the
  world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am
  ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my
  country.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, War, Years

  Interview with Matthew Chance, edition.cnn.com. August 29, 2008.

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• I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied over the decades from 22 percent in my own civilian files, 30 percent in the University of Colorda Condon Committee scientific studies, to at least 40 percent recently revised found in the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book military investigations. This is not acceptable, no matter who is doing the investigations.

  George Fawcett

  Military, Real, Book

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• It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

  John Yoo

  Desire, Pearls, Als

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• It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.

  Steven M. Greer

  Long, Analysis, Research

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• Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Typewriters, Littles, Pentagon

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.354, Penguin

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• Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Men, Us Veterans

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

  Caleb Carr

  Warfare, Kind, Terror

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• There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

  Steven M. Greer

  Military, Car, Police

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

  Graydon Carter

  Moving, Voice, Years

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• Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing two tiny pointers into jeweled alignment while tons of heavy artillery go fluttering overhead: the prosaic, civilian-looking dial of the watch has restored, however briefly, an illusion of personal control. Good, it counsels, looking tidily up from the hairs and veins of each terribly vulnerable wrist; fine: so far, everything's happening right on time.

  Richard Yates

  Hair, Two, Watches

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.213, Random House

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• To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed and, by the way, unexplained sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.>>.

  George Carlin

  Military, Thinking, World

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Jobs, Fighting, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.265, Penguin

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• A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Fighting, Son

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.210, Random House

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• Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Israel, Use, Weapons

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014

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• American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.

  Colin Ward

  War, America, Would Be

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• Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Events, Violence, Embassy

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• At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

  Charles Rangel

  Quagmire, Fields, Killing

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• Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Islamic, Law, Damage

  "What's Right With Islam Is What's Right With America". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.

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