Top 53 War Casualty Quotes
#1. Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
Harry Elmer Barnes
#2. 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
#3. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
Alberto Gonzales
#5. In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
Paulo Coelho
#6. 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
#7. Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.
Jason Versey
#9. As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I
John Grisham
#10. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Every heart knows its own sorrow and the greatest casualty of war is to be forgotten,
Miguel Reece
#18. 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
#19. For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
Barbara Boxer
#20. More than men had died at Lincoln. It seemed to Stephen that reality was a casualty, too, for nothing made sense anymore. What was he doing here in the solar of Lincoln Castle, bleeding all over the Earl of Chester's wife?
Sharon Kay Penman
#22. The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
Ken Follett
#23. I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.
Ann Coulter
#24. Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#25. If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
Paul Fussell
#26. It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.
Vince Flynn
#27. 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
#28. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston
#29. Truth is always the first casualty of war.
Aeschylus
#30. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#31. 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
#32. In war the first casualty is the truth.
Aeschylus
#33. The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin
about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of World War II. Of the 125,000 of Berlin's civilians who died in the Russian attack, 6,400 were suicides;
Andrei Cherny
#34. Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. 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
#36. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne
#37. 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
#38. I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Al Capone
#39. There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
Jay Leno
#40. In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. [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
#45. Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#47. The Purple Scar might have been a paper casualty of World War II.
John S. Endicott
#48. In war, the first casualty is truth.
Aeschylus
#49. 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
#50. I doubt I would use the word 'casualty'. There is nothing casual about killing.
Janet Turpin Myers
#51. The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
Richard Aldington
#53. 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
