What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war. — Sven-Goran Eriksson 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
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
World War I was the deadliest conflict the world had ever known. Veterans Day originated from the American people recognizing that a… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
“Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In an area so reliant on opinion there is also the matter of received opinion to consider. The old turkey of the… — Patrick Ferriday Copy Share Image
“Television* means ‘to see from a distance’. The desire in man to do so has been there for ages. In the early… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like to think that I probably have written more World War II music than anyone on the planet after all the… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon. — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
Without the railways, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened. I don't actually think the second world war would have happened without them. — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II. — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated,… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to… — Tristan Thompson Copy Share Image
“The Second World War was over - and there I was at high noon, crossing Times Square with a Purple Heart on.” — Eliot Rosewater Copy Share Image
