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  • I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.

    "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 76), 1985.
  • Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

    War   Writing   Emotional  
    Harry Elmer Barnes (1980). “Revisionism: A Key to Peace and Other Essays”
  • A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

    Country   Order   America  
    "General Tommy Franks". Interview by Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. December 2003.
  • 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.

    Military   Borders   Arms  
    "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.
  • During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

    Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press
  • The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

    Usual   Tactics   Sides  
    "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 3 "Uninvited Guests", Section I, p. 66), 1996.
  • I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

    Kings   Son   Soldier  
  • 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.

    Military   War   People  
  • In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

  • truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

  • All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

    Source: dailynorthwestern.com
  • The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.

    Brain   Battle   Looks  
  • If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.

    Country   Loss   Mind  
  • A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

    Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

    War   Thinking   Average  
    "Media Control". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1991.
  • Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 06, 2017
  • One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

    War   Society   Vietnam  
  • But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

    Distance   School   Home  
    Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin
  • Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.

    Dream   War   Loss  
    Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.9, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

    War   Firsts   Casualties  
  • 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.

    Military   Long   Bonus  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)”, p.254, Random House
  • In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

    Source: harvardmagazine.com
  • No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.

    "Fictional character: Tier Harribel". Anime series "Bleach" ("Chain of Sacrifice, Harribel's Past", 2010), 2004-2012.
  • ...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.

    Country   Impact   World  
  • The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

    "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.
  • "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. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.
  • When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.

    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

    Real   Giving   Baghdad  
  • They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

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