Top 333 Civilian Quotes & Sayings

Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

There's simply no reason for a civilian to own a military-style assault weapon. It's no different than why we outlaw civilian ownership of rockets and landmines.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

I'm a civilian, a citizen.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.

Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.

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.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

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

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

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

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

Together, with technology as an enabler, we can help our veterans find meaningful civilian careers that match their skills and interest.

By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

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

Military-assault weapons have no place in civilian hands.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

We're extremely appreciative of all the crime lab and other civilian personnel who help solve crimes and make Missouri safer.

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

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

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.

I think civilian Americans support the military very much.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

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

Congress has an obligation to ease the challenges our veterans face when they come home and return to civilian life.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be able to land at military airfields as a civilian, so there's got to be some document that the Air Force or the Army has that would list all the civilian aircraft that are cleared to land at military bases.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

All civilian politicians in Pakistan are puppets of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), military, and the Taliban.

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

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

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.

I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian career as an entrepreneur and founder of a defense contracting company has been an extension of my military service.

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

Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

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