I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it… — Michael Apted 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
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
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad.” — Danny M. Cohen Copy Share Image
“The Second World War was over - and there I was at high noon, crossing Times Square with a Purple Heart on.” — Eliot Rosewater Copy Share Image
The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into… — DJ Spooky 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
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“Weale had joined the Scouts from the regular army within a few weeks of it being formed. The regiment’s ethos was inspired… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“The statistics are unequivocal: up until the end of 1944, on a man-for-man basis, the Germans inflicted between 20 and 50 per… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian)… — Timothy Snyder 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
“In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth… — Ruby Tandoh Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky 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
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
