Quotes About Casualty

Allied casualty rates averaged 6,674 a day for the seventy-seven days of the Normandy campaign. Those numbers would have been far higher, had it not been for a small and most peculiar band of men and women fighting a secret battle.

Truth itself is a casualty as the result of a disturbing trend in academia to fully embrace postmodern moral relativism.

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.

How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included." He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.

He didn't. But I didn't beat him up," Lock quickly added. "I…I simply threw him five…or maybe it was fifty feet into a tree." The two friends gazed at each other for a long moment. Finally, Lock shrugged. "That does make it all kind of awkward, doesn't it?

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

More than a hundred new airlines went into business around this time, although the casualty rate was extremely high: in 1994 alone, fifty-seven new airlines opened for business, of which thirty-seven closed within two years.

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality

What happened to your face? she asked. It fell on a fist. He shrugged. That happens a lot? Enough.

In war, truth is the first casualty. —AESCHYLUS

Truth is the first casualty of war.

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

Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.

she was collateral damage

Does the military even have a position between going all out and casualty? Dr. Sloan wondered-her thoughts apparently having been following the same paths. Yes, ma'am. We in the Corps refer to that position as being in the Navy.

The following morning as the waxy bodies of seven former ministers were carried out horizontally through the back door of Madame Tussauds, the most obvious casualty was Macmillan's chief supporter Selwyn Lloyd. Unpopular with some for his 1962 Budget tax on children's sweets and ice cream, he had been a loyal Chancellor of the Exchequer and was shattered by his unexpected and ruthless dismissal.

But it's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so … I must hang all four men." He paused. "And I would weep, every night, for having done it.

But it's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job.

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.

As they carried him out, one of his mates came back in and said to me, 'Do it too me, go on, fucking try it with me.' I obliged and I flattened him as well and he was laid out in the ambulance next to Big John heading for the casualty department.

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.

Allowing the momentary hijacking of our sense of self by random acts of fear or hate—call it guerrilla racism—is bad for us. Literally. The high rates of hypertension, stroke, and heart disease among African-American males bear brutal witness to the problem. Do not volunteer yourself as a casualty. Let those with the illness, those who caricature and misrepresent you, be the ones consumed.

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.

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