Casualty Quotes

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

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I have to send people out to get killed.

You have two enemies in war. The guy who is trying to shoot you, and the guy who is ordering you out to be shot.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

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.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

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.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

It’s very hard really to look a soldier in the eye when you fear that you are sending him to his death.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

'Sonchiriya' speaks of the consequences of societal bias and the bloody consequences of revenge when human lives become casualty.