If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both… — Els Borst Copy Share Image
My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum.… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War.… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“Brody, please tell me what this has all been about" I said. "The lead-up to the Second World War" said Brody, still… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war,… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
“I let them do some simple arithmetic. In a group of one hundred people, how many assholes are there? How many fathers… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
“Death duties in Harcourt’s time were a comparatively modest 8 percent on estates valued at £1 million or more, but they proved… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Karachi was not always synonymous with charred buses and mutilated bodies wrapped in gunny bags. The ‘Guide to Karachi’ distributed to American… — Laurent Gayer Copy Share Image
“When Seymour and I were five and three, Les and Bessie played on the same bill for a couple of weeks with… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
I suppose that I just grew up knowing, in a very vivid way, that if it hadn't been for the men who… — David Jason Copy Share Image
It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Ours was the Thatcher generation. Ultimately, we were all trying to succeed. There was a work ethic instilled in us. Our parents… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Cote d'Azur as a holiday destination closed down, but once the Allies had liberated the coast… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's… — Andrew-Lee Potts Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Prewar.” It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people’s minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it;… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
