“The Chinese death-toll in the chaotic fighting of the Second World War has been estimated at around twenty million, outstripping by far… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“It is by manipulating “hidden forces” that the advertising experts induce us to buy their wares—a toothpaste, a brand of cigarettes, a… — Aldous Huxley 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
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren,… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant. — Ruth Duccini Copy Share Image
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember,… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
“For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes 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
