Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard. — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood 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
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I have had a great dislike of people who, themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biggest explosion of the First World War was set off by miners from the allied forces, who dug shafts underneath German… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that 'force multipliers' - squad automatic weapons - have changed the character of warfare once again, just as… — Roger Ford Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“These moments of nocturnal prowling leave an indelible impression. Eyes and ears are tensed to the maximum, the rustling approach of strange… — Ernst Jünger 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
“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
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is said that chlorinated drinking water brought to troops in the First World War saved more lives than were lost to… — Hugh Aldersey-Williams Copy Share Image
Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
