Casualties Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Army, Doe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Average

  "Media Control". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1991.

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• 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.

  Christopher Vokes

  Writing, People, Decision

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 76), 1985.

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• Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

  Tori Amos

  Rain, Clouds, Years

  Song: Silent All These Years, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• At Travelers, we were much more opportunistic. It was very successful, but it wasn't an integrated financial services company. We had a property casualty company, a life company, a brokerage company. We were a financial conglomerate. It wasn't a unified, coordinated strategy of any sort. When it merged with Citi, that became a big issue; Citi, at that time, wasn't yet a fully integrated, coordinated company.

  Jamie Dimon

  Successful, Issues, Financial

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.

  Rand Paul

  Russia, Somewhere Else, Way

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Priorities, May

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.106, Princeton University Press

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• The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Government, Years

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• When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers of refugees flowing out of the region, which increases the misery of the Syrian people.

  John R. Allen

  Creating, Numbers, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  David Petraeus

  Soldier, Enemy, Trying

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• Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons, but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there ; our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist there. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence ?

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Police, Soldier

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

  Adam Kirsch

  Appreciation, Teaching, Reading

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Marine, Trying

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.

  Chelsea Manning

  Thinking, Two, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Killing, Innocent

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, War, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Walid Muallem

  Army, Cities, Enemy

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit.

  Brad Willis

  War, Drinking, Long

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that hit the US south-western coast led to casualties, left homeless dozens of thousands of US citizens and inflicted a strong damage to the economy of this region. I ask you to convey my condolences to the next of kin of those killed,.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Condolences, Hurricanes

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• What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Eye, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25

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

  Greg Bryk

  Struggle, World, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every person matters, and what really matters is having the strategy and the will to make sure any death is not -
  is honored by achieving an objective.

  George W. Bush

  Running, War, Trying

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.aparchive.com. December 16, 2005.

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• 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.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Thinking, Years

  N.H. Democratic Debate, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• 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.

  Ralph Peters

  Daughter, Son, People

  Ralph Peters (2004). “Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World”, p.287, Stackpole Books

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

  Audre Lorde

  Warrior

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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