Enemy Treatment Quotes

it is better to mistakenly kill an innocent person then to mistakenly spare an enemy.

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

A government that is brutal to its own people will be brutal to its neighbors and its enemies.

As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.

The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

The government has decided that the same force would be employed in America as if the inhabitants were French or Spanish enemies

Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.