Civilians Quotes - Page 15

• Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, War, Israel

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• Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Military, Fall, Responsibility

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• I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Simple, Political

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• As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  Ward Churchill

  Patriotism, Towers, World

  "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" by Ward Churchill, www.kersplebedeb.com. September 12, 2001.

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• Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Color, Atrocities Committed, Tyrants

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• 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.

  Richard Kadrey

  Girl, Cities, Sound

  Richard Kadrey (2012). “Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Odds, Together

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.32, Penguin

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• You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

  Max Brooks

  Choices, Mountain, Boulders

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• Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

  Rick Yancey

  Missing, Sailor, Members

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Children, Pain, Love Is

  Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.

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• Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dying, Sanctions, Willing

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5148, NYU Press

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

  David Spade

  Stories, Want, Sells

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

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• A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Religious, Military, War

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• To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

  George Stanley

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. It is -- we know terrorists are barbaric, and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

  Hugh Shelton

  United States, Citizens, Faces

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.

  Mark Krikorian

  Jobs, Occupation, Facts

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• War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

  Madeline Taylor

  War, Soldier, Weapons

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• The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.

  Robert Graves

  War, Order, Long

  Robert Graves, Steven Trout (2008). “Goodbye to all that: and other great war writings”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Innocent, Instruction, Should

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• If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

  Harry S. Truman

  Military, Political, Elements

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs”

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• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Mountain

  Wendell Berry's Commencement Address at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, May 14, 2005.

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• In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice.

  George W. Bush

  War, Fate, Opportunity

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  War, Independent, Sovereign

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

  Willie Nelson

  Military, Gun, Needs

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