Top 108 Casualty Quotes & Sayings

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

We can't let the USMCA become another casualty of political games.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman's terms means the head insurance adjuster!

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

Mess with my weed again and I’ll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission.” I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.

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

I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

I'm delighted to be working on 'Casualty.' It's a terrific cast and crew, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity.

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

In war the first casualty is the truth.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

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.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.

Obviously I pray every day there's less casualty.

I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

I have always been 100% regimental and I haven't done what I should do and sometimes you can be a casualty of your own success.

This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty

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

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

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.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

'Sonchiriya' speaks of the consequences of societal bias and the bloody consequences of revenge when human lives become casualty.

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

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.