Quotes About Casualties

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

It was the burden of being alive. Awkwardly, the men would reassemble themselves, first in private, then in groups, becoming soldiers again. They would repair the leaks in their eyes. They would check for casualties, call in dustoffs, light cigarettes, try to smile, clear their throats and spit and begin cleaning their weapons.

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

The reason there are so many casualties among believers in spiritual warfare is that we have lost sight of the fact that we are in a perpetual state of warfare, which demands constant alertness. And so we let down our guards. We open ourselves to attack. We forget that we are warriors, not tourists, in God's kingdom on earth.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

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

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

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

Although I knew that quite possibly this would have made no difference to anything at all, in the long run, I couldn't help thinking of all the casualties that silence had left behind, all the wreckage in its wake.

By the end of 2001, between 100,000 to 150,000 Algerians had died in the civil war, as well as 120 foreigners. The cost to the economy ran into billions of dollars. And all this in spite of a tough, 120,000-strong army backed by 80,000 police.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

A single death is a tragedy; multiple deaths are a sanitation problem.

Since no country has had any experience with the tactical use of nuclear weapons, the possibility of miscalculation is considerable. The temptation to use the same target system as for conventional war and thereby produce vast casualties will be overwhelming. The pace of operations may out strip the possibilities of negotiation. Both sides would be operating in the dark with no precedents to guide them.119

All the literary techniques of the humanist are brought to bear, but one of the chief casualties is intended to be humanism itself.