Author: Jody Williams

Quotes

Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.

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

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

- Jody Williams

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.

- Jody Williams

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

- Jody Williams

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