Casualties Quotes · Page 3

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

— Walter Raleigh

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

— Mathias Rust

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

— Dick Cheney

“Thus the total Armistice Day casualties were nearly 10 percent higher than those on D-Day.”

— Joseph E. Persico

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

— Walid Muallem

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

— Bruce Catton

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

— Richard E. Grant

The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw…

— Amy Goodman

I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as…

— Peter T. King

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the…

— Anonymous

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives,…

— Gerald R. Ford

We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody…

— George W. Bush

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the…

— Jim Rohn

The misunderstandings - or, what really bothers me are the intentional misrepresentations of the facts, which take place on a fairly regular…

— John O. Brennan

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who…

— Anonymous

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of…

— Yitzhak Rabin

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting…

— Adam Kirsch

“It was the Battle of the Somme—or what the Germans, who suffered massive casualties as well, referred to in letters home as…

— David Grann

“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess…

— Kofi Annan

“Meanwhile nothing happened, nothing ever happened. The English had got into the habit of saying that this wasn’t a war, it was…

— George Orwell

Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Iain Banks

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

— Harry Browne

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones…

— Amit Kalantri

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

— David M. Shoup

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

— Michael Hyatt

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

A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname…

— Stephen Fry

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to…

— David Lloyd George

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

— Harry Elmer Barnes

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

— Jay Leno

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

— Elie Wiesel

“This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.”

— Eric Metaxas

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

— Justin Bieber