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
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
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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
