The First Casualty Of War Is The Truth Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. In war, truth is often the first casualty.

Winston Churchill

#5. There's always one more way to do something
your way.

Waylon Jennings

#6. Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.

Jason Versey

#7. Truth is the first casualty of war.

Sophie Masson

#8. As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I

John Grisham

#9. There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.

Hilary Mantel

#10. The first casualty in every war is truth.

Muriel Lester

#11. Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

#12. We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.

John O. Brennan

#13. Women are smarter than men because they listen.

Phil Donahue

#14. The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

Chris Hughes

#15. There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

Bassem Youssef

#16. When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

Arthur Ponsonby

#17. I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

Owen Wister

#18. Sometimes it takes another person to see us for who we really are.

Priscilla West

#19. Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#20. It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.

Vince Flynn

#21. In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

#22. Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Aeschylus

#23. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Greenfield

#24. In war the first casualty is the truth.

Aeschylus

#25. I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

AJ Michalka

#26. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live ...

Anne Bronte

#27. I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

John Burnside

#28. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Harry Browne

#29. An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Ezra Taft Benson

#30. Listen to your inner voice. Look deeply into soul, there is beauty surrounding you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#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. I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.

Jeanette Winterson

#33. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

Harry Elmer Barnes

#34. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#35. The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson

#36. Today at least I live in a better place

Sidharth Malhotra

#37. In war, the first casualty is truth.

Aeschylus

#38. 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