Civilians Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Years, People, Three

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  Country, War, Islamic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

  John Olver

  Leadership, War, Iraq

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• A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.

  Walter Kirn

  Use, Literature, Consciousness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Leader, Political, Resistance

  Source: kalamu.com

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• Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Vices, Majority

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

  David Swanson

  People, United States, Pentagon

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Order, President

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a sense that the military are different than I. Because there was such a divide between the military world - and there still is, because there's no draft - and the civilian world is one of the rotten harvests of the Vietnam War, was this sort of bifurcation of America in that way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, War, America

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, People, Leader

  Source: www.mott.org

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• 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.

  Chester Brown

  Girlfriend, Games, Dating

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

  Mark Kennedy

  Iraq, People, Safety

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• The misunderstandings - or, what really bothers me are the intentional misrepresentations of the facts, which take place on a fairly regular basis. To think that we, people who are involved in counterterrorism, do not care about civilian casualties or deaths or injuries, is just totally, totally wrong.

  John O. Brennan

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Obama's Drone-Master". Interview with Reid Cherlin, www.gq.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

  David Petraeus

  Diminish

  "David Petraeus: the Danger Room Interview". Interview with Spencer Ackerman, www.wired.com. August 18, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

  Joe Wright

  Film, Fit, Behave

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

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• In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

  Mark Hamill

  Believe, Book, School

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• Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

  Cliff Stearns

  Today, Entertainment, Target

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• Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Baby, Children

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

  Tom Clancy

  Said, Officers

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.53, Penguin

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• 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.

  Nicholson Baker

  Warfare, Program, Chemicals

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

  Germaine Greer

  War, Grief, Differences

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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• Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Peace, War, Morbid

  Cyril Connolly (1946). “The Condemned Playground”

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• I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Army, Doe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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