Half Quote by Orson Scott Card

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is…

— L. Neil Smith

There's only one truth about war: people die.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people…

— Peter Maurer

“It's a lie to feel any war is far away.”

— Michelle Detorie

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

— Henry Rollins

“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.”

— Stephanie Perkins

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

— Aeschylus

“Truth is the first casualty of war.”

— Sophie Masson

“All warfare is based on deception. For years, the West hypocrisy has made the world a battlefield. The corrupt talk while our brothers and…

— Vladimer Makarov

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a…

— Tim O'Brien

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

— Margaret Deland