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Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged. — George Clooney

Somewhere in the dead space between house and shelter civilians became soldiers. — Sara Novic

But we're also taught that you're not a martyr if you blow yourself up in a marketplace, because you're killing civilians and other Muslims. — Maajid Nawaz

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV. — Alan Carr

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. — Thomas Pynchon

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. — John O. Brennan

You and your ship will immediately familiarize yourselves with the guidelines for dealing with citizen civilians. And you will follow them. — Ann Leckie

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians. — John Steinbeck

Let the soldier yield to the civilian. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To protect civilians, the state needs sometimes to do things that are contrary to democratic behavior. — Anonymous

Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims. — Hosni Mubarak

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

A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military — Willie Nelson

Truly intelligent beings do not drop bombs on innocent civilians. — Hiroshi Yamamoto

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences. — Phil Klay

Civilians is one term journalists use to describe non-journalists. Another is laypeople. Or normals. — Dan Lyons

In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda. — Ari Shavit

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police. — Al Sharpton

Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields? — Michael Totten

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians. — Tom Clancy

Holy Christ! There was a frickin' melee in the alley. Lessers. Brothers. Two civilians crouched and quivering in the middle. And big bad Butch O'Neal. — J.R. Ward

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists? — Rosie O'Donnell

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Because deep down to the army a wounded soldier that can't fight anymore is garbage. So we depend on civilians, and civilians don't care either. — Lee Child

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

He wondered how much trouble he could get into for shooting non-American civilians. — Terry Pratchett

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I don't give a damn about the civilians. — Richard M. Nixon

It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers. — Terry Pratchett

rifle, you best grab one now," the XO tells the civilians. I have the rifle from the drop ship, — Marko Kloos

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it. — Peter T. King

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

who can dare claim to believe in God when they slaughter civilians merely to gain a slight advantage? — Christopher G. Nuttall

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

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that. — Si Robertson

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. — Charles B. Rangel

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have. — Sebastian Junger

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion. — M.F. Moonzajer

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians. — Bear Grylls

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur. — Tariq Ramadan

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life ... — Edward Gibbon

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. — Immortal Technique

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected. — Martin Van Creveld

Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle. — Jeannette Walls

Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons. — Mark Pellegrino

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. — Caleb Carr

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military. — Maureen Dowd

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation. — Caleb Carr

No, the United States does not target civilians. — Douglas Feith

The more civilians you bomb, the more resistance you grow. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech. — Medea Benjamin

I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed. — Sonia Gandhi

A lot of people who didn't understand the need for civilians to bear arms on Sept. 10 were pretty clear on the issue by Sept. 12. — Tim Slagle

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.' — Feisal Abdul Rauf

The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed. — Sergey Akhromeyev

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians. — Jimmy Kimmel

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

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? — Wilfred Burchett

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

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

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission. — John R. Allen

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. — Curtis LeMay

When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it. — Peter T. King

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

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

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001. — Cliff Stearns

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used. — Sean MacBride

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US - almost all killed by black civilians. — John Podhoretz

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point. — Al Franken

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians. — George Armstrong Custer

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants. — Cofer Black

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now. — Ralph Nader

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood. — George W. Bush

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those. — David Spade

How many good soldiers will die, saving these civilians? And how many people will shrug later and say: That's their job. — Ann Aguirre

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

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. — Gijs De Vries

ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:
HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE — Widad Akreyi

Our days are exactly the same. Shoot at the enemy. Hit some civilians. Apologize. Reload your rifle. Shoot again. — David Christopher Perez

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

Working with civilians, like this was that TV show about the wizard with the talking skull and the twatty name. — Caitlin Kittredge

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians. — Stuart Symington

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

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line. — Morley Safer

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists. — Benjamin Netanyahu

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

The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible. — David Mitchell

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror — Barack Obama