Top 36 The First Casualty Of War Is Truth Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.
Edie Sedgwick
#4. It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.
Vince Flynn
#6. Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#7. The world began in hazard and will end in it.
John Fowles
#9. 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
#11. Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.
Jason Versey
#13. As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I
John Grisham
#15. I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.
Richie Havens
#16. To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#18. Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#19. For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
Charles Dickens
#20. 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
#21. Truth is always the first casualty of war.
Aeschylus
#22. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#23. 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
#24. In war the first casualty is the truth.
Aeschylus
#26. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne
#27. Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it - and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#28. In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
#29. Oh were playing nice now?" Puck remained seated, looking anything but compliant. "Shall we have tea first? Brew a nice pot of kiss-my-a*s?
Julie Kagawa
#31. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#32. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#33. Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.
Hadewijch
#35. In war, the first casualty is truth.
Aeschylus
#36. It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.
Ving Rhames
