Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
If 'Sajjan Singh Rangroot' showed seriousness through the First World War, 'Carry On Jatta 2' had a great dose of comedy. — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli. — Saul David Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Following the 2008 season nothing further was attempted until after the First World War the Stonehenge had by its time to come… — Brandon McCaw 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
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein 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
What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do… — George Friedman 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
“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense… — eric voegelin Copy Share Image
“Aomame imagined 1926 Czechoslovakia: The First World War had ended, and the country was freed from the long rule of the Hapsburg… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago, when I was 10, I played at being a soldier. I walked up the brook behind our house in… — David Kenyon Webster Copy Share Image
“In the history of warfare, a succession of bold ideas and weapons had promised to curb the tyranny of distance. The horse… — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
