Civilian Deaths Quotes:

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

- John Conyers

topic: Play, Violent, Hostility, Civilian Deaths

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Pay, Responsible, Hamas, Civilian Deaths

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.

- Jacqueline Winspear

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Military, War, Men, Civilian Deaths, Trenches

Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

- Richard A. Falk

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Political, Peaceful, Majority, Peaceful Resolution, Civilian Deaths

Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. In the build-up to this attack on Iraq, journalists have almost universally excluded the prospect of civilian deaths, the numbers of people who would die, because those people don't matter.

- John Pilger

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Iraq, Numbers, People, Civilian Deaths

Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.

- Mohsin Hamid

source: "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

topic: Years, Two, Numbers, Civilian Deaths

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

- David Petraeus

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Past, Years, Iraq, Civilian Deaths