Civilian Quotes
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
— Walid Jumblatt
I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
— Charlie Jane Anders
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
— Jose Saramago
As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.
— Alexander Suvorov
I'm a civilian, a citizen.
— David Remnick
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I've never known him as a civilian. Never known him as just a regular guy, something I'm not sure heor any warrior
can ever be again. — Ellen Hopkins
Let the soldier yield to the civilian.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.
— Hillary Clinton
Civilian casualties?" I asked."There always are. — Ann Leckie
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
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
— John O. Brennan
Imagine fighting for a country where the only civilian you know is a Chinese laundryman!
— Kurt Vonnegut
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
— Paul Fussell
With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.
— Mia Bloom
I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.
— Rachel Dolezal
years in a U.S. civilian jail
— Marcus Luttrell
Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news.
— Karl Marlantes
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
— Barry Goldwater
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can't buy fighting spirit. — Robert A. Heinlein
Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
In effect, sanctions take another country's civilian population hostage in order to get its leaders to acquiesce.
— Mike Lofgren
Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?
— Neal Shusterman
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
— Robert M. Gates
There is no case which calls for injustice; and to condemn a civilian by the judgment of a secret military tribunal is both unjust and illegal.
— Ethel Lilian Voynich
Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population ...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
No civilian has been allowed to see the gold in Fort Knox since 1974, nearly 40 years ago.
— Brad Meltzer
I think civilian Americans support the military very much.
— Thad Cochran
About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.
— George W. Bush
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
— Donald Rumsfeld
What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge?
— Terry Pratchett
But I stand convinced that the brand of justice in which we dealt, wholesale bombings of civilian populations, was blasphemous.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.
— Noam Chomsky
There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
— Michael Nutter
After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
— Chris Kyle
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.
— Stephen Kinzer
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
— Marshall McLuhan
You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders
— Woodrow Wilson
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
— Bill Vaughan
The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.
— Bob Ainsworth
You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.
— Mary McGrory
I've never shot a civilian except when under orders.
— William T. Vollmann
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
— William O. Douglas
55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.
— Howard Schultz
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life ... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
— Chester W. Nimitz
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
— Yehuda Amichai
As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
— Matthew Hayden
Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man.
— Dennis Lehane
There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.
— Erwin Rommel
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
— Mohammed Morsi
Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
— Gene Luen Yang
A warrior culture trains for adversity. Luxury and ease are the goals advertised to the civilian world.
— Steven Pressfield
The SAG was a strange three-legged beast equipped by civilian bureaucrats, administered by the police and staffed by the army.
— Sandeep Unnithan
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