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Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades. -- Jody Williams
Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food. -- Kofi Annan
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace -- Danny Glover
Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal. -- Jody Williams
Go on... make a difference. -- Heather Mills
The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral -- Desmond Tutu
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over. -- Heather Mills
A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality. -- Heather Mills
It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines. -- Twiggy
... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts. -- Kofi Annan
Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods -- Ban Ki-moon
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. -- Ray Bradbury
Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine. -- Ryan Giggs
I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more. -- Jackie Chan
Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that. -- Twiggy
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war. -- Angelina Jolie
The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. -- Jody Williams
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. -- Elon Musk
Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development -- Kofi Annan
When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe. -- Paul McCartney
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines. -- A. N. Wilson
The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines. -- Ban Ki-moon
Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. -- J. L. B. Smith
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time -- Kendrick Lamar
Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years. -- Jody Williams
At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands. -- Thomas H. Cook
The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth. -- Princess Diana
I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along. -- Joanna Lumley
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop. -- Jackie Chan
I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine. -- Khaled Hosseini
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured. -- Ban Ki-moon
I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything. -- Angelina Jolie
The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines. -- Tom Lehrer

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