Top 100 Casualty Quotes
#1. I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
Laura Donnelly
#2. Truth is always the first casualty of war.
Aeschylus
#3. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#4. The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.
Paul Johnson
#5. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.
Charles Stanley
#6. I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
Audre Lorde
#7. It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
L. Neil Smith
#8. In war the first casualty is the truth.
Aeschylus
#9. Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.
Neal Shusterman
#10. North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
#11. The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.
Fred Barnes
#12. Hospitals strip a lot from you - your independence, your confidence, sometimes your will to live. But pettiness too. Pettiness is the first casualty of the ICU waiting room. No one has the energy for it.
Dennis Lehane
#13. Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.
Simon Heffer
#15. The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action.
Stephen R. Brown
#16. They would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.
Norah Vincent
#17. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne
#18. Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves.
Max Brooks
#20. For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
Barton Gellman
#21. The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality
Max Brooks
#22. I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
George C. Marshall
#23. Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another
unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
John Green
#24. I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Al Capone
#25. There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
Jay Leno
#26. The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
Cory Doctorow
#27. In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
#28. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston
#29. Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.
Sweety Shinde
#30. My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman's terms means the head insurance adjuster!
Ciara Renee
#31. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Boake Carter
#32. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#33. A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR. I'd rather be a living coward any day.
Mira Grant
#34. Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.
John Green
#35. How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.
Price Pritchett
#36. You are plainly awash with debauchery.I'm merely an innocent casualty of your depravity.
Kendra Leigh
#37. May not lead to reduction in U.S. casualties until its final stages, as our casualty rate may be unrelated to the total number of American troops in South Vietnam. To kill about 150 U.S. soldiers a week, the enemy needs to attack only a small portion of our forces ... .
Henry Kissinger
#38. Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen
#39. It gets harder as times go by, because memory is the first casualty of manic depression. When I'm manic, all I remember is the moment. When I'm depressed, all I remember is the pain. The surrounding details are lost to me.
Terry Cheney
#40. Get the intel, and then come back to Reno so we can cover you." He paused, his tone softening. "Getting involved in their Pack won't make you a hero, Luke, it'll make you a casualty.
Lisa Kessler
#41. [In "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"], death took on an existential quality -- the beloved, innocent but weak Gwen is merely a victim, the casualty of a war between superpowered rivals -- and as such the episode proved a turning point int eh genre's depiction of mortality.
Jose Alaniz
#42. During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.
Matthew Specktor
#43. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#45. Every step you take - everywhere you stand - the ground beneath your feet is tainted by some kind of casualty. It's an inescapable fact. Nothing is untouched by death. Nothing.
J.M. Darhower
#46. It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
Joshua Slocum
#48. The Purple Scar might have been a paper casualty of World War II.
John S. Endicott
#49. To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
T.E. Lawrence
#50. In war, the first casualty is truth.
Aeschylus
#51. To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
Harry M. Collins
#52. Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.
Jose Antonio Bowen
#53. When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.
Clive Cussler
#54. I doubt I would use the word 'casualty'. There is nothing casual about killing.
Janet Turpin Myers
#55. If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty
Les Brown
#56. The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
Richard Aldington
#57. I don't want to waste my time, being another casualty of society
Sum 41
#59. The first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization
Alec Douglas-Home
#60. Every human being wants to be seen, really seen, by another human being, not as a statistic in some sociological study, not as a casualty of poverty, not as a victim of a corrupt social structure. We can start by seeing both what is and what can be.
Nancy Rue
#61. They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
Alexander Cockburn
#63. I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
Dalai Lama
#64. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
Alberto Gonzales
#66. Mess with my weed again and I'll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission. I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.
Karen Chance
#67. In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
Paulo Coelho
#68. In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free.
Sara Niles
Torn From the Inside Out
Sara Niles
#69. As they carried him out, one of his mates came back in and said to me, 'Do it too me, go on, fucking try it with me.'
I obliged and I flattened him as well and he was laid out in the ambulance next to Big John heading for the casualty department.
Stephen Richards
#70. I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
Ethan Hawke
#71. Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
Walter Raleigh
#72. We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.
Teresa Medeiros
#73. We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.
Barack Obama
#74. What sort of soldier are you? she asked. Not much of one. Using his book, he tapped the triangular brown patch with its inset green circle sewn on his tunic shoulder. 2/7th Casualty Clearing Station. I'm a doctor. He
Richard Flanagan
#75. What many men desire
that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
William Shakespeare
#76. Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.
Jason Versey
#78. But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.
Rick Allen
#79. As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I
John Grisham
#80. [The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
David Lloyd George
#81. As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation's educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
Lewis H. Lapham
#83. stayed as close to Theatre as she could, working Casualty or Men's;
Colleen McCullough
#85. I couldn't prevent my own child from becoming a casualty of war, but I may be able to help prevent another child from becoming one. I'd rather fail at the attempt than not try at all.
Dawn Willson
#86. He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
David Finkel
#87. Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.
Jay Kopelman
#88. We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.
Tommy Wonder
#89. Sincerity is the first casualty of capitalism. We
John Burdett
#90. There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.
James Carl Nelson
#91. Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
Cintra Wilson
#92. Every heart knows its own sorrow and the greatest casualty of war is to be forgotten,
Miguel Reece
#93. I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'
Kevin Costner
#94. When love dies and a marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial recall of the past. Too inconvenient, too damning of the present. It's the spectre of old happiness at the feast of failure and desolation.
Ian McEwan
#96. As Americans gained a new belief in their manifest destiny around the globe, Hawaiians lost their country, the first sovereign nation to become a casualty of America's imperial outreach.
Julia Flynn Siler
#97. Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy
Tori Amos
#98. Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan
#99. It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of those who accepted the terms of battle? War is a sacrificial system that creates its own justification.
Stanley Hauerwas
#100. I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
James Ellroy
