Ambiguity Quote by Paul Fussell Download Open image “If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.” — Paul Fussell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Casualties Truth Truth is War
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“the first casualty of war was the truth, and oftentimes, the second casualty was the truth teller.” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
