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Civilian Quotes

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Tiffany Madison
“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.”
― Tiffany Madison
tags: civilian, combat, combat-infantry, marine, marine-corps, marines, ptsd, war, warrior, warrior-ethos, warriorship
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Robert A. Heinlein
“Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.
But you can't buy fighting spirit.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
tags: civilian, commodity, contractor, military
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Amit Kalantri
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
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Amit Kalantri
“Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
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Nel Noddings
“The spectacle takes us away from our routines. For at least a time, we feel part of something big, colorful, exciting. It is perhaps understandable that civilians are often more enthusiastic during wartime than soldiers who have experienced battle. The soldiers know that war is often boring and dirty as well as terrifying and colorful. Even so, after some years, an old soldier like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could brush aside his earlier description of the pain, boredom, and death of war and declare that “its message was divine.” The stench disappears, but the spectacle remains in memory’s eye.”
― Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
tags: civilian, disgust, enthusiasm, excitement, memory, pain, routine, soldier, suffering, war
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Christina Engela
“I was the chief of security on this civilian behemoth. Yes, that’s right – I used a big word – try not to faint. I was one of the mostly invisible shepherds protecting the gilded flock of holidaymakers on their pleasure cruise through space. Most of the time it was boring, tedious work with nothing more exciting than the occasional case of misplaced luggage, passengers getting lost in the miles of corridor asking for directions, and just being visible to the passengers to put their minds at ease and make them think they were safe. Safe? Ha ha! This is space, man – anything can happen. Finding my shuttle out here proves that.”
― Christina Engela, Space Vacation
tags: behemoth, big, civilian, faint, gilded, i, mostly, the, word, yes
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“Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.”
― Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
tags: civilian, democracy, government, military, reflection
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Honoré de Balzac
“One solitary, pale, weary figure turned towards the new player and, giving him a look which dazzled and expired like a diamond's sparkle, said, 'He who says military does not say civilian, Monsieur le Ministre.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Selected Short Stories
tags: civilian, insight, military, sylvia-raphael
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“Tell the UN, tell the Red Cross, tell the newspapers that we are dying, they said. What was it like? Oh, they told us, we die on the beach. We die in the sea, swimming for rescue, and we die in the sand. We dig bunkers for shelter and they become graves. Our bodies bleed and shatter and burn. We are leaving our elders and children behind us.”
― V. V. Ganeshananthan
tags: civilian, death, horror, war
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“As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military to pick up the slack. . . . This requires still higher military budgets, which continues the devastating cycle.”
― Rosa Brooks
tags: civilian, congressional-failure, dynamics, military
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Steven Magee
“I cannot engage in the remembrance of the 9-11 attacks because I am aware of the far greater number of horrific deaths of innocent civilians that the USA unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
― Steven Magee
tags: 9-11-attack, afghanistan, civilian, horrific, innocent, iraq, remembrance, usa-unleash
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Steven Magee
“The time has arrived for governments to start locking up very high altitude astronomy managers that have willfully damaged their sea level adapted civilian workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data.”
― Steven Magee
tags: altitude, arrived, astronomy, civilian, kea, locking, mauna, osha, telescope, tmt
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Steven Magee
“NASA is the civilian face of a military space program.”
― Steven Magee
tags: civilian, face, flight, military, nasa, orbit, program, rocket, satellite, space
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Steven Magee
“It is only a matter of time before the Space program kills a civilian with a piece of rocket or satellite debris.”
― Steven Magee
tags: civilian, debris, kills, matter, piece, program, rocket, satellite, space, time
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Steven Magee
“The police are the civilian side of the military that wage war on the general public.”
― Steven Magee
tags: civil-rights, civil-rights-movement, civil-war, civilian, civilian-side-of-the-military, general-public, law-enforcement, police, sheriff, wage-war
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