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The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending. — Emmanuel Jal

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim

I'd never felt anything quite like it. For the first time in my life, everything was as it should be. Because the opposite of war ... is fucking. — Brian K. Vaughan

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. — Michael Parenti

Freedom is often the first casualty of war. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained. — Joe Haldeman

Truth is always the first casualty of war. — Aeschylus

By the war's end, non-Chileans constituted 53 percent of the first engineers; 20 percent of the second engineers; — William F. Sater

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground. — Sun Tzu

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. — James Reston

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon. — Douglas MacArthur

First, the front lines. They are not lines, really: the war seems to be going on in many places at once. Wooded — Margaret Atwood

First, we fight the battle, then we win the war. — Ilona Andrews

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute ... — Dalai Lama

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why. — Robert Lembke

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days. — Robert Anderson

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — William Westmoreland

In war, truth is the first casualty. — Aeschylus

In war, the first casualty is truth. — Aeschylus

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer. — Richard Eberhart

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. — Paulo Coelho

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In a war where both sides are wrong, the side which loses first, wins. — Harsh Snehanshu

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War ... — J.G. Ballard

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it. — Norman Schwarzkopf

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort. — Chris Hedges

War, technology, and social progress; it seemed that the second two always came with the first. The NACA's work - more intense and — Margot Lee Shetterly

We didn't call it the First World War when it was happening. — Anita Diamant

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

hair if it was not supposed to be there would not be growing on our bodies in the first place - we are at war with what comes most naturally to us — Rupi Kaur

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. — Sun Tzu

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. — Neil Sheehan

As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I — John Grisham

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march. — Al Sharpton

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain. — Randal Cremer

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha. — Pat Barker

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days. — Saxby Chambliss

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice. — Elizabeth Berg

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty. — Jeff Greenfield

The first casualty in every war is truth. — Muriel Lester

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes

President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory. — David Letterman

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar — Agona Apell

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

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. — Peter Jennings

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word. — Ernst Haeckel

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. — Alva Myrdal

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. — Huey P. Newton

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. — King Hussein

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

In the War on Drugs, shoot heroin first. — Eric Beeny

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque

Well, I asked him who would start the war first. — Samantha Smith

According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats. — Nancy B. Brewer

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. — Henry Lee III

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war. — Audie Murphy

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty — Arthur Ponsonby

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers

Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It — Timothy Snyder

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans. — Rick Yancey

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet. — Chris Cleave

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why. — Joe Reyes

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign. — William Westmoreland

In war, truth is often the first casualty. — Winston Churchill

The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. — George W. Bush

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed. — Richard Engel

The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. — Nick Harkaway

In war the first casualty is the truth. — Aeschylus

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. — John Doolittle

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself. — Winston Churchill

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it. — Samantha Smith

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. — John Kenneth Galbraith

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. — Emma Goldman

This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One — Rick Yancey

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day. — Karl Kautsky

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. — Abba Eban

When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war. — Mark Helprin

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops. — John J. Pershing

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed. — Henry David Thoreau

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter. — Thucydides

All wars are popular for the first 30 days. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics. — Theodore Schultz

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. — Margaret Atwood

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. — Aslan Maskhadov

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War. — John Kasich

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other. — Edward Abbey

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. — Plutarch