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“The Middle East is an immense focal point of all kinds of collective forces: economic, religious, social, ideological, and cultural. We have… — Ritama Davidson Copy Share Image
“we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good… — Carol Schultz Vento Copy Share Image
“We Americans” is a fabrication of the rulers. There are the tens and tens and tens of millions of workers and farmers… — Jack Barnes Copy Share Image
“During World War II trolley tracks ran down Central Avenue, the main street of the Jersey City Heights, before traveling off of… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“We have talked about World War I and World War II, but could World War III be in our future? The war… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was… — Jules Feiffer 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
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
“Castine is a quiet town with a population of about 1,500 people in Western Hancock County, Maine, named after John Hancock, when… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the wake of World War I, however, the British and French took out their imperial pens and carved up what remained… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. If conservatives get to call universal health care "socialized medicine," I… — Bill Maher 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 greatest evils since World War II have been Communism and, since the demise of Communism in the Soviet Union and most… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Now, take a man like Nixon, a man who is going to be President of the United States. He’s known for his… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Harry Belafonte explained: [T]he Second World War happened, and my mother told me that the fight against Hitler was our fight, and… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“I can’t say enough about the wonderful people I met in Cuba and feel saddened that they are stuck in the 50’s… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where… — Rick Hillier Copy Share Image
“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of… — Reg Whitaker Copy Share Image
“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
“Chester William Nimitz, Sr. was the last surviving officer to serve as a five star admiral in the Unites States Navy, holding… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The… — Karl Marx 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
“I remain basically a socialist. It is more relevant today because capitalism has reached its apex. It will begin to slide down… — Luis Taruc Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“In the early months of World War II, San Francisco's Fill-more district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution. On the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“For several crucial days, I believe, Kennedy and Khrushchev were each privately prepared to back down, “but not yet,” as they sparred… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image