Angelina Jolie Quotes

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

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.

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons of war are. When you set them off, innocent people will die.

According to the laws of war, a warring party can just walk away from civilian harm that they have caused.

If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the local population will turn against us - and make the fight against violent extremists even more difficult.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

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.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

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

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

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

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

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.

If in the past, after every lost war, the unlucky vanquished were divested forever of their honor and their equality of rights, the League of Nations would even now have to be satisfied with a whole series of non-equal and thus ultimately dishonorable and inferior nations.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

When adults wage war, children perish.

I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.