Civilian Casualties Quotes

“The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier against the mass killing of civilians. It was the precedent for the 'conventional' bombing of civilians in the Second World War and then for the use of the atomic bomb.”
― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

“We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.”
― William Blum

“It seems that in the historical game of politics and contests for territories, it is almost always the guiltless who die in greatest number.”
― Jimmy Carter, The Blood of Abraham: Insights Into the Middle East