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To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

David Wong

Struggle, Gun, Shells

David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.165, Titan Books

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From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear the pressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our first and only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way we protect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared.

J.R. Ward

Fighting, Night, Race

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Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Issues, People, Tasks

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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

Rick Perlstein

Sex, Mean, Top Down

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There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

Erwin Rommel

Differences, Soldier, Doe

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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.

Peter King

Military, Blame, Ifs

"For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past" by Scott Shane, www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2011.

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For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

John Conyers

Children, Men, Middle East

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Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.

Hosni Mubarak

Numbers, Egypt, Soldier

"Israel mourns, Palestinians celebrate / Terrorism against U.S. resonates in Mideast" by Danielle Haas, Dina Shiloh, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2001.

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Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

Daniel Ellsberg

Men, Hands, Choices

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Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Peace, War, Hatred

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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous when the streets are full of "civilians" who may or may not be armed. Poor babies!

Jeff Cooper

Baby, Gun, Law

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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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The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.

Richard M. Nixon

War, Thinking, Giving

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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

George Monbiot

War, People, Generations

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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

Howard Zinn

Military, War, Smart

Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.51, Seven Stories Press

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America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

Robert M. Gates

America, Long, Development

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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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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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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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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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I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

Rosie O'Donnell

Want, Terrorist

"Rosie Equates USA with Terrorists; Joy Hails 'Blame America First' GOP Congressman". www.newsbusters.org. May 17, 2007.

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Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets....What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.

Dan Rather

Jobs, Iraq, Risk

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So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people - so many I lost count.

General Butt Naked

Soccer, Teenager, Sacrifice

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We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Children, People, Fleeing

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It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

John Rawls

Military, Government, Firsts

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