Jody Williams

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.

American Activist

Ambrose Burnside

The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

American Politician

Ban Ki-moon

People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

South Korean Leader

Joachim Low

For me, it is utterly incomprehensible how people share their private life, from truly confidential and intimate things, indiscriminately with thousands or even millions of people.

German Coach

Peter Lindbergh

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

German Photographer

Jay Parini

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

American Writer

Peter Maurer

You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.

Swiss Activist

Ivan Illich

I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.

American Sociologist

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

Royalty

Gijs de Vries

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Dutch Politician

Indicates a lack of consideration for consequences or outcomes.

Negligence Implied

Suggests actions affecting many without distinction or selection.

Broad Impact

Often used to express disapproval of actions causing harm or damage.

Negative Connotation

Describes choosing or using items or ideas without preference or careful selection.

No Preferences

Does not involve making finer distinctions or judgments.

Lack of Discrimination

Can imply an eclectic and unfiltered approach or taste.

Varied Range

 where everything that can go wrong does go wrong -- where mothers cannot feed their children, where strangers cannot find the basis for peaceful collaboration, where people are murdered indiscriminately. And we know that it's possible to move along this continuum towards something quite a bit more idyllic,

Science can answer moral...

 Less than one in ten trees are actually infected with agarwood, And there are no obvious external signs that a tree contains it. The search for agarwood has resulted in indiscriminate felling of trees, a dramatic decline in wild populations and huge damage to the ecosystems which these trees help

Is Your Perfume Made...

 for a fleet comprising over 90 percent of the world's fishermen and women. Their fishing is generally more selective and sustainable than the indiscriminate destruction too often wrought by bigger industrial boats. These coastal people have the most to gain from conservation

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 to rake the muck, to speak truth to power? Well, not exactly. It's good to be accurate. Of course we should be aware of suffering and danger wherever they occur, but we should also be aware of how they can be reduced, because there are dangers to indiscriminate pessimism.

Is the world getting...

 due to his inflexible prosthetic legs. Ten years ago, I had no clue what a cluster bomb was, nor its horrifying implications. I learned that this indiscriminate weapon was used in so many parts of the world and continues to kill on a regular basis,

The deadly legacy of...

 where everything that can go wrong does go wrong where mothers cannot feed their children we're strangers cannot find the basis for peaceful collaboration where people are murdered indiscriminately and we know that it's possible to move along

 the Western world we speak much and hear very little if we are to learn from history and believe that storytelling is an indiscriminate vehicle for the pages of history then listening must be our guiding principle as I shared earlier I

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 definitely not gonna be in a what is the one most important science part about eclipse that astronomers are chasing it so well I mean we we chase anything in the sky we just indiscriminately it's awesome I mean black holes aren't the

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 After the war, it was routinely sprayed in wide swaths to fight pests, often with unforeseen results. One attempt to eradicate fire ants in the southern U.S. killed wildlife indiscriminately, but did little to eliminate the ants.

How one scientist took...

 this day this is the most medals of Honor ever awarded for a single battle more medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World

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