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Truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror. — Alberto Gonzales

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths. — Eric Metaxas

It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."
-- Nenya, The Water Warrior — Mili Fay

Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to see any blunder made by their commanders. - DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER — Geary A. Rummler

Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin',
B.I.G. keep creepin',
Bullets heat-seekin',
Casualties need treatin',
Dumb rappers need teachin'. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Civilian casualties?" I asked.
"There always are. — Ann Leckie

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. — Douglas Haig

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power. — Tom Shadyac

This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls. — Tom Schulman

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population. — John O. Brennan

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own. — Tite Kubo

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. — Andy Hargreaves

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon. — Jay Leno

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. — Iain Banks

Casualties? What do I care about casualties? — Aylmer Hunter-Weston

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food. — Richard Corliss

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. — Harlan Coben

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior. — Audre Lorde

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties. — Ann Coulter

We fall.
All casualties of the war,
Because we cannot hear each other speak,
Because eyes have ceased to see the face from the crowd. — John Pepper Clark

We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed. — Justin Bieber

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life. — Steve Southerland

T's one of history's many valuable lessons: the foot soldiers tend to be the casualties in any conflict, not the generals. — Mark Mills

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human. — Ai Weiwei

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. — Walid Muallem

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high. — Steven Pinker

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties. — Mathias Rust

Your sharp tongue leaves a mountainous of casualties along the away. — Euginia Herlihy

Litigation was war. A war that usually inflicted heavy casualties on both sides. — Kenneth Eade

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame. — Barry Humphries

The casualties of war are true heroes that everybody forgets to remember, even those who fight wars within themselves ... — Michelle Horst

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll. — Warren Cuccurullo

The number of casualties will be more than most of us can bear. — Rudy Giuliani

Barry remembered his dad saying that the casualties of war couldn't be counted only among the dead and the wounded. — Patrick Taylor

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. — Nancy Gibbs

He wreaked havoc, but his path of destruction was invisible. The girls and I were the casualties of an amnesiac. — T. Greenwood

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty — Les Brown

A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win. — M.F. Moonzajer

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. — Kurt Vonnegut

The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties. — Michael Dobbs

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. — Jim Rohn

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch

There is a collision course between the greed and rationalizations of the West and the force of nature; science and the planet are the casualties. — Eric Mann

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? — John Green

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties. — Eduard Shevardnadze

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. — Robert Burton

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. — Robert Boyle

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm. — John J. Pershing

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many. — Bob Ainsworth

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency. — Bob Ainsworth

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup

they missed that the number of U.S. casualties is negligible compared to the Somalis who were attacked in their own homes. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities. — Walter Wink

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come. — Boris Trajkovski

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are. — Fred Barnes

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power. — Greg Bryk

Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides. — Jamie Raser

...They were nothing but numbers to the people who had started this war. — Ellen Marie Wiseman

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties. — Lauren DeStefano

Be advised, your objective is to raise a child from birth to adulthood so that she is a productive member of society. Minimum casualties. — Tonya Burrows

They were neither the first casualties of the war nor the last. The war went on. — Nicholas Sparks

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead. — Katherine L. Walker

What do you most want for your birthday picnic, Admiral?" Taken by surprise, he answered honestly: "No casualties. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. — John Irving