#casual

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#back #casualties #challenge #civilian #civilian casualties

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#casualties #civilian #including #population #unfortunately

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#act #allow #casual #courtroom #licensing

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#casually #easy #easy way #far #gone

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.' ↗

— Kevin Costner

#big #big fan #casualty #dreams #fan

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#because #care #casual #drive #easy

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens