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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."
"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
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"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
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