A Quote by Paul Fussell

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

Paul Fussell

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Ambiguity Another Casualty Main Truth Truth Is War

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Paul Fussell
American - Historian
Born: March 22, 1924

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

Barbara Boxer

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

Peter Maurer

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

Harry Browne

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Greenfield

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Boake Carter

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Hiram Johnson

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Aeschylus

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.