Top 1200 Victims Of War Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I'm very tough on crimes where there are victims who have been physically harmed. In such cases, I do not believe in leniency.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE MASSES NEVERTHELESS AGAINST THE DEVIL. THUS WE WERE FORCED AFTER THE WAR, TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS DEVILS' SCENARIO. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE MADE OUR PEOPLE CLEAR (TO THEM) THAT THE WAR WAS ONLY AN ECONOMIC PREVENTATIVE MEASURE!

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.

A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.

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.

In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.

Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that... you don't like war? Wow, that's original. Know what I mean?

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.

We will always remember the victims of the horrific terror attacks of September 11th, 2001.

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride.

If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

Nut cases only succeed in multiple killings when they can be confident their prospective victims are disarmed.

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

The use of military force against a sovereign nation is an act of war. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly grants Congress the sole power to declare war.

My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.