World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever. — Russ Meyer Copy Share Image
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a… — Patty Andrews Copy Share Image
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true… — Haim Harari Copy Share Image
...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Copy Share Image
I don't think my generation carries the weight of World War II anymore. But I've got to tell you, even if we… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
All leaders must be good communicators. But let's be clear, communications is not the same as oratory. Let me give you an… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill;… — William Golding Copy Share Image
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We Jews had more power than you Americans had during the War [World War I]. — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. — Douglass North Copy Share Image
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed? — Alan Coren Copy Share Image