Landmines Quotes:

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.186, Open Road Media

topic: Prejudice, Mark, Landmines

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Devastation, Landmines, Immoral

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Country, War, Acceptance, Landmines

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development

- Kofi Annan

topic: Country, Children, Lying, Landmines

I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

- Jackie Chan

topic: Thinking, People, Enough, Landmines

It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

- Danny Glover

topic: Children, War, Long, Painful Things, Landmines

The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Country, Thinking, Iran, South Korea, Landmines

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

- Jody Williams

topic: Children, Grandmother, Differences, Landmines, Firewood

... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Opportunity, Impact, Long, Landmines, Long Lasting

It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Hurt, Real, War, Landmines

Go on... make a difference.

- Heather Mills

topic: Differences, Making A Difference, Goes On, Landmines

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

- Jackie Chan

topic: Hurt, Reality, Government, Landmines

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

topic: World, Agents, Destruction, Landmines, Scourge

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

- Princess Diana

topic: Land, People, World, Landmines, Waste Of Life

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

- Kofi Annan

topic: War, Land, Long, Landmines, Growing Food

Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.

- Twiggy

topic: Simple, Squares, People, Landmines, Making Choices

It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

- Twiggy

topic: Children, Animal, Care, Innocent Children, Landmines

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

- Ryan Giggs

topic: Children, Years, Use, Landmines

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Good Morning, Reality, Together, Landmines, Morning After

A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.

- Heather Mills

topic: Dream, Reality, Together, Landmines

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Should Have, People, World, Landmines

Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

- Richard Siken

topic: Grateful, Writing, Thinking, Landmines, Having A Hard Time

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

- Heather Mills

topic: Children, War, Long, Landmines

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Years, Numbers, Landmines

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dirty, Mind, World, Landmines, Outside World

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Beach, Children, War, Landmines, Snipers

If we spend our days trying to avoid the landmines of stepping out of God's will, then will be afraid to take any risks for his kingdom. But when you know there is a net of grace, when you know that God will catch you and set you back on his path when you fall, then you'll feel the freedom to pursue the adventure that kingdom living is all about.

- Will Davis

topic: Fall, Adventure, Risk, Landmines

UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Hurt, Children, Drama, Landmines, Unicef

I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time

- Kendrick Lamar

topic: Rap, Blow, Fields, Landmines

When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.

- Haskell Wexler

topic: Lenses, Vietnam, Shooting, Landmines

We need to be prepared to have multi-stakeholder, well-managed partnerships. That can be very effective. We saw this happen at international level with the UN Convention on Landmines, for example, where some governments didn't want to go forward, but enough governments did and with them many NGOs. At international level we need to see this as the 21st century way of doing things.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Government, Example, Needs, Stakeholder, Landmines

I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Believe, People, World, Landmines

For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of landmines. For example, when the French troops went into Kosovo they were told that they were going to enter in half-tracks, over the open fields. But their leaders had forgotten about the landmines. And this was a major problem because, these days, landmines are no longer localized.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Gps, Track, Leader, Major Problems, Kosovo

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

- Kevin O'Leary

topic: Clever, Player, Knowing, Landmines

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

- Eoin Colfer

source: Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl”, p.174, Penguin UK

topic: Fowl, Way, Rooms, Landmines, Artemis Fowl

We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

- Landon Pearson

topic: Children, War, Age, Landmines, Recruitment

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

- David Knopfler

topic: Challenges, Needs, Statistics, Landmines, Clearance

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

- Norman Jewison

topic: Community, Important, World, Landmines

If you witness (the problems in the world), your outlook on life will change. You will understand how fortunate and well-off you are, (…). You will understand that you are so safe from the risk of air raids and landmines.

- Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

topic: Air, Risk, World, Landmines

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

- J. L. B. Smith

topic: Ciphers, Scar, Self Mutilation, Landmines, Barbs

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

- Thomas H. Cook

source: Thomas H. Cook (2012). “The Crime of Julian Wells”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Beach, Memories, Loss, Landmines

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: History, Doe, Grievance, Landmines

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

- Tom Lehrer

topic: Song, Real, Writing, Landmines, Puppeteer

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

topic: Memories, War, Childhood, Landmines, Fond Memories

I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.

- Giles Duley

source: Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

topic: Ignorance, Fighting, People, Landmines

Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

- Elon Musk

source: "Elon Musk Gives Tesla's Patents to Open Source Movement". bigthink.com.

topic: Technology, Electric Vehicles, Goal, Initiate, Landmines