Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings,… — Geoffrey Perret Copy Share Image
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated… — Sathnam Sanghera Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even… — J. Neven-Pugh Copy Share Image
“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“In the trenches of the First World War, English men came to love one another decently, without shame or make-believe, under the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun?… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before… — Nicholson Baker 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
“Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the… — John Kasich 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
“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
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
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