Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I'd stayed at home I'd have married as a virgin. But, in the heady post-war years, I fell in love all… — June Brown Copy Share Image
In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction. — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone. — Pierre Cardin Copy Share Image
In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy. — Klaus Fuchs Copy Share Image
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.” — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic… — Michael Rosbash 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
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
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
“Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Thinking ahead, Batista had handpicked Carlos Saladrigas Zayas as his replacement. However, this scheme was not to be, when the people defeated… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
To people like me, educated in post-war Britain, free speech has been a firm premise of the British way of life. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Our post-war generation were struggling to escape the past and the burden of guilt we carried and to find a new way. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
The history of post-war Britain shows us that we are lousy at running our economy. We need someone to do it for… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image