Alexander Cockburn
Related ALEXANDER COCKBURN HARRY BROWNE In time of war the first casualty is truth. BOAKE CARTER AESCHYLUS In war, the first casualty is truth. TERRY HAYES The first casualty of war is truth. HIRAM JOHNSON The first casualty when war comes is truth. HIRAM JOHNSON When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ARTHUR PONSONBY It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty. VINCE FLYNN The first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917) HIRAM JOHNSON It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ... STANLEY HAUERWAS PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE UNKNOWN WINSTON CHURCHILL It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too,... L. NEIL SMITH All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o... THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth. THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form... THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'. THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b... THE TRUTH I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of... LAUREN WOLK If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ JEANETTE CORON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. DOROTHY L. SAYERS You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN NEIL GAIMAN AULIQ ICE If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the trut... GERALD VANN JOHN GREEN ORIANA FALLACI POPE FRANCIS PAUL JOHNSON The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is agai... MICHAEL PARENTI BARBARA BOXER PETER USTINOV GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ PAULO COELHO MELODY BEATTIE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO ALBERT CAMUS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW SPANISH PROVERB CHARLES DICKENS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM BENITO MUSSOLINI I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because t... AIDAN TURNER I feel a responsibility for telling the truth. FUTURE In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. PETER MATTHIESSEN ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH JOSEPH DE MAISTRE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING DEYTH BANGER SUN TZU Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that... PAUL GREENGRASS ERIN MORGENSTERN MITT ROMNEY PETER USTINOV MARIA MONTESSORI ANTHONY DE MELLO The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in... HAMID KARZAI JOE BIDEN The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that th... EDWARD ST AUBYN Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN FRANCIS BACON RICHARD GERE PATRICK ROTHFUSS ANDREA HAIRSTON J.D. SALINGER GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ JACK CANFIELD If you are in doubt, you are close to the truth DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Three things can not be hidden; The Sun, The Moon, and The Truth. BUDDAH Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end. JENNIFER HARRISON I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client ... JUDY SMITH This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth. COREY CLARK Is it then that they do not ponder over what is said, or is it that there has come to them that whic... QURAN J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER MICHEL FOUCAULT One of the greatest reliefs in life is telling the truth to someone that you had lied to. KURT KROHN I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER PETER GUBER G. K. CHESTERTON KATE MIDDLETON
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies tha... 
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo... 
In war, truth is the first casualty. 
Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty. 
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. 
There were dozens of stones of all sizes in the small meadow. Tall stones, bigger than either of the... 
The truth is we don't know the truth. We just live and learn how to tell the truth because we were b... 
Sometimes people don’t understand
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.&... 
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to... 
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and... 
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this... 
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. 
There is no greater glory than to die for love. 
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. 
We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be... 
It is safe to say that every truth in the histories of those times (The Bible) is the result of acci... 
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I... 
My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world 
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... 
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility ... 
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Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) 
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. 
I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” 
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of ... 
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us. 
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. 
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberatio... 
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. 
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The secret of my success is my hairspray. 
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. 
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. 
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... 
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... 
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I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ... 
We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the dee... 
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked. 
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I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... 
The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains. 
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. 
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I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style. 
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I'm not interested in being liked. 
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
All generalizations are false, including this one. 
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The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to... 
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood... 
The proper study of Mankind is Man. 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. 
The most positive men are the most credulous. 
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi... 
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner... 
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ... 
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... 
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion 
To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...