Quotes About Truth

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

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

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.

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

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

In war, the first casualty is truth.