Landmines Quotes

• Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, War, Acceptance

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• Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Children, Lying

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• I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

  Jackie Chan

  Thinking, People, Enough

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• It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

  Danny Glover

  Children, War, Long

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• The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Thinking, Iran

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• The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

  Jody Williams

  Children, Grandmother, Differences

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• ... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, Impact, Long

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• It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Real, War

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• Go on... make a difference.

  Heather Mills

  Differences, Making A Difference, Goes On

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• Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Reality, Government

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• We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Agents, World, Destruction

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• The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

  Princess Diana

  Land, People, World

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• Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Land, Long

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• Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.

  Twiggy

  Simple, Squares, People

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• It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

  Twiggy

  Children, Animal, Care

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• The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

  Desmond Tutu

  Devastation, Immoral

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• As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

  Ryan Giggs

  Children, Years, Use

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• Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

  Ray Bradbury

  Good Morning, Good Day, Reality

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.

  Heather Mills

  Dream, Reality, Together We Can

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• I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

  Angelina Jolie

  Should Have, People, World

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• Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

  Richard Siken

  Grateful, Writing, Thinking

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• Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

  Heather Mills

  Children, War, Long

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• Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Country, Years, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Dirty, Mind, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

  Paul McCartney

  Beach, Children, War

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