Non-Combatant Quotes

I'm a civilian, a citizen.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.

Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

When you have to besiege a city for a long time, you must not destroy its trees, wielding an ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees human, to withdraw before your siege?

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.

Let him not strike one who in flight has climbed on an eminence, nor a eunuch, nor one who joins the palms of his hands in supplication, nor one who flees with flying hair, nor one who sits down, nor one who says 'I am thine;' Nor one who sleeps, nor one who has lost his coat of mail, nor one who is naked, nor one who is disarmed, nor one who looks on without taking part in the fight, nor one who is fighting with another foe; Nor one whose weapons are broken, nor one afflicted with sorrow, nor one who has been grievously wounded, nor one who is in fear, nor one who has turned to flight.

I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

Kill not the old man who can not fight, nor young children nor women; and steal not the spoils of war

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.