These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War.… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
My dad had been in the second world war, had electric shock treatment, suffered from anxiety and was abusive to my mum.… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The links between the British and the Dutch royal families are strong - Queen Beatrix's grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, was evacuated to Britain… — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
“After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“Brody, please tell me what this has all been about" I said. "The lead-up to the Second World War" said Brody, still… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“Some writings spotted U.S. history said that the CIA agents who were watching the Communists, in the period after the Second World… — Mohamed Addakhakhny Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Death duties in Harcourt’s time were a comparatively modest 8 percent on estates valued at £1 million or more, but they proved… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Karachi was not always synonymous with charred buses and mutilated bodies wrapped in gunny bags. The ‘Guide to Karachi’ distributed to American… — Laurent Gayer 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 am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information… — Michael Zadoorian Copy Share Image
“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war,… — Robert Scales 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
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation.… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I have just written a book on the occupation of the Channel Islands, which is being published in Germany. Pursuing the Second… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
Like so many of the young men he grew up with, my grandfather Luis Lujan was proud to answer his nation's call… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“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
Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to… — Fionn Whitehead Copy Share Image
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