Calamity Quote by Samuel Johnson

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.…

— Samuel Johnson

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

— Georg Brandes

“It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty... Like a killer forest fire, like cancer…

— Tim O'Brien

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and…

— Robert Anton Wilson

War is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast…

— John F. Kennedy

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always…

— John Stuart Mill

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

— P. Chidambaram

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

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

— Julian Assange

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

— John McCain