Top 324 Civilians Quotes & Sayings

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

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

In Iraq, State Department civilians and U.S. soldiers have been operating in the same location in an active war zone. While the troops have been facing insurgents, the State Department civilians have been working to rebuild institutions and infrastructure. Blackwater's role in this war evolved from this unprecedented dynamic.

In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.

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

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

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

You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.

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

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

Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?

Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets....What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.

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.

Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.

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

Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.

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

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

I don't date civilians. I don't even try. I'm totally out of the game of dating or trying to get a girlfriend or anything like that.

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.

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

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

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

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

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

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

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

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

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

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

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

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

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.

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

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

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

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

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

The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

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

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

You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

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

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

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

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

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

Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

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

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

On the campaign trail, candidate Trump occasionally raised the idea of creating 'safe zones' for Syrian civilians.