Top 171 Casualties Quotes & Sayings

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

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

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.

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

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

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

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

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

I guess you could say I'm lucky because I've known a Zimbabwe that didn't have Robert Mugabe leading it. One of the saddest things about Zimbabwe is there are so many hidden casualties of the Mugabe government's misrule. They're not just casualties that you immediately see.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

I have the duty to protect my people, hurt my enemy, do the best I can with as few uninvolved casualties as possible - I can't have zero innocent casualties - and at minimum risk to the lives of our soldiers.

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

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

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

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

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

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

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought, 'This is really cool, I could get into this,' you're going to hate 'Casualties.'

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war... What we hate is not casualties but losing.

Casualties? What do I care about casualties?

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers.

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.

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

Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.

I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and sleep are the first casualties of an assignment.