Quotes About Military Casualties

#1. Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence - unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

John O. Brennan

#3. The fact is that a true human privilege is based upon the anatomical privilege only in virtue of the total situation. Psychoanalysis can establish its truths only in the historical context.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Tim O'Reilly

#5. WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

Jemima Khan

#6. A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#8. Advice, the smallest current coin.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Tommy Franks

#10. It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Terry Pratchett

#11. The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

John Olver

#12. If I love something, I wear it to death!

Ashley Madekwe

#13. Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

Marianne De Pierres

#14. I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!

Georgette Heyer

#15. The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

John J. Pershing

#16. When one is content, little will suffice. But without contentment, nothing suffices.

Hamza Yusuf

#17. The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance ... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture involving all the senses, while ours is a culture concentrated in the literate eye.

Nick Joaquin

#19. The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20. Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

David M. Shoup

#21. Casualties? What do I care about casualties?

Aylmer Hunter-Weston

#22. They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#23. Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#24. The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you.

Frederick Lenz

#25. I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

Andrea Arnold