Top 51 First Casualty Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#5. In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.
Jason Versey
#8. As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I
John Grisham
#11. Sincerity is the first casualty of capitalism. We
John Burdett
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#16. Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan
#17. 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
#18. Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Margaret Heffernan
#19. When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.
Michael Hyatt
#21. The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
Ken Follett
#22. Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.
Greg Iles
#23. Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#24. It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.
Vince Flynn
#25. So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
Paul Begala
#27. Truth is always the first casualty of war.
Aeschylus
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. In war the first casualty is the truth.
Aeschylus
#31. Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.
Neal Shusterman
#32. 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
#33. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne
#35. The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality
Max Brooks
#36. The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
Cory Doctorow
#37. In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
#38. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston
#39. Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.
Sweety Shinde
#40. 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
#41. Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen
#42. 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
#43. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#46. In war, the first casualty is truth.
Aeschylus
#47. 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
#48. When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.
Clive Cussler
#49. 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
#50. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#51. 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
