Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“A Quote from Monty's journal in God Must Be Weeping, "I, too, wished to climb the ladder of life and reach the… — J.D. Winston Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Currently reading one of the many examples of the Japanese atrocities inflicted on other Asian- Pacific communities during World War II. Definitely… — Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas Copy Share Image
My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Two large trials of antioxidants were set up after Peto’s paper (which rather gives the lie to nutritionists’ claims that vitamins are… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker 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 historical significance of the fact that we were going out on a joint raid with German Special Operations was lost on… — Brandon Webb 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
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid 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
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Let us immediately establish the point. Our enemies know full well that news is an important weapon in modern warfare and they… — Matthew Gordon 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
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II.… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“The discovery of curium was part of the Manhattan Project, so it stayed secret until World War II ended. It was supposed… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
“could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Serbs don’t forget, as the graffito goes, the atrocities that the Croatian ustashas committed against them in World War II. That was… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
![“The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war…” quote by Max Beckmann](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/238/max-beckmann-14117_again-and-again_the-world-is-rather-shot-to-pieces-end-o_665482.jpg)
