Quotes About Civilians

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

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

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

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.

Let's stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.

A phased decision can avoid there being a key moment when the moral issue about killing civilians has to be confronted.

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

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

What was to be done with those who had not volunteered for the Germans, such as the millions of Soviet civilians whom the Nazis had forced to labor at gunpoint in German factories? And what of prisoners from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and parts of the western Ukraine? Since 1939, the USSR had claimed these territories as its own, but the Western Allies did not recognize them as such. Were prisoners from these regions to be considered Soviets?

Fully functional weapons were being haphazardly passed around by low-level officers and, in two confirmed cases, civilians. One warhead they were watching was currently parked in a retired captain's storage unit. A recon team had managed to get a fiber optic camera through the ventilation grate and the Agency was now in possession of an honest-to-God picture of a hot nuke sitting next to a set of golf clubs.

This information in turn greatly influenced our understanding of Genghis Khan's field methods and how he treated hostile civilians as animals to be herded but hostile soldiers as game to be hunted.

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

Military families are increasingly living away from military bases, embedded in civilian neighborhoods. It gives military families and civilians the opportunity for greater exposure to one another, yet many feel lonely and isolated.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.

The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill civilians, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their

The Nature of Political Terrorism The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as political leaders and news media in the United States have tried to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy. Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders, whose innocence is, of course, no different from that of the civilians killed by American bombs in Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.