Civilians Quotes

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows.

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.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.

Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

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

I don't date civilians. I don't even try. I'm totally out of the game of dating or trying to get a girlfriend or anything like that.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

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

Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields?

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.

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed.

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

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

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

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

A lot of people who didn't understand the need for civilians to bear arms on Sept. 10 were pretty clear on the issue by Sept. 12.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military

State first, subject second, statesman last.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

I will follow anyoneAnd ask everyoneTo stand together as one nationAgainst the killing of innocent citizens