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

“We never destroyed anything major, but there were a few small casualties. A couple of lamps were sacrificed.”

“We fall. All casualties of the war, Because we cannot hear each other speak,Because eyes have ceased to see the face from the crowd.”

“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost.”

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”

“The story of how shit got in our meat is the story of one of the central characteristics of carnism, and of other violent ideologies: the system depends on a constituency of indirect victims, inadvertent victims who not only suffer the consequences of the system, but who also help that system by unwittingly participating in their own victimization. The system creates such victims by appearing to be something it is not, so that we feel safe when we are at risk and free when we have been coerced. The story of how shit got in our meat is the story of the human casualties of carnism.”