Women Children Quotes

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

I lament that two or three women and children were killed by accident.

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

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

It is a most abominable military blunder—a massacre of women and children.

I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.