(101 quotes found)
“I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.”
Ariel Sharon
“Let the soldier yield to the civilian”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson”
Ambrose Bierce
“Well, really, let's get a grip here shall we? True enough, they were civilians of sort. But innocent? Give me a break.”
Ward Churchill
“President Bush says we're safer fighting them there than over here. Why are we safer because 120,000 civilians are dead? What makes their babies less precious than ours?”
Cindy Sheehan
“[Carl Bildt, the top civilian peace accord administrator, said the 2,000-strong international police force that is supposed to be in place by January 31 cannot force the Bosnian people to respect the accord.] The responsibility is mainly on the parties. It's their peace agreement, not ours, ... Freedom of movement will have to be guaranteed one way or another.”
Carl Bildt
“We condemn the continued targeting of all innocent civilians, including journalists, and appeal to those holding them to free them at once.”
Ann Cooper
“Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields, and we also rule it illegal to use civilians to pass military warnings from the army to those the army wants to arrest.”
Aharon Barak
“Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.”
Caleb Carr
“I can see a lot of debris, a lot of rubble in what is a civilian area. There is a considerable amount of damage.”
Brent Sadler
