Civilian Quotes

I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee. — M.I.A.

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 he
or 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

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands. — Vladimir Putin

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit. — Joe Wright

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

To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes. — Sarah Brady

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. — Paul Fussell

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule. — Ye Xiaowen

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

Civilian notions about unreasonable search and seizure and warrants and probable cause stop at an army post main gate. — Lee Child

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific. — Phil Klay

Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news. — Karl Marlantes

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

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

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

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life. — Adam Driver

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

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. — Mark Dayton

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon. — Michael Nutter

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

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

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. — Joe Barton

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching. — Gene Luen Yang

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians. — Barry Goldwater

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

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties. — Ann Coulter

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites. — John Conyers

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military. — Wesley Clark

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

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

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims. — Boaz Ganor

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

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

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

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace. — Janet Reno

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. — Donald Rumsfeld

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism. — Noam Chomsky

But I stand convinced that the brand of justice in which we dealt, wholesale bombings of civilian populations, was blasphemous. — Kurt Vonnegut

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal. — Lee Child

What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? — Terry Pratchett

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist. — Steve Forbes

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

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

years.' She kissed him good bye on the station platform, a long and passionate kiss. Now she was a civilian it did not matter if anyone saw them. — A.R. Davey

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists. — Rudy Giuliani