Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it;… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“you see how strangely history repeats itself.Here and now in Bosnia we are seeing images like those of the second world war.… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the… — Rana Mitter Copy Share Image
“Harry Belafonte explained: [T]he Second World War happened, and my mother told me that the fight against Hitler was our fight, and… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“… and just as suddenly he was with Stern and it was a night twenty years ago in a city once called… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good… — Carol Schultz Vento Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn 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
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both… — George Packer Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“The Second World War created the need for a new generation of female heroes. Where could these women look for role models?… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“He won all those medals in the Second World War, which was staged by robots so that Dwayne Hoover could give a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine 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
“Many are convinced that the Second World War will be the war to end all wars, but Patton knows better. As a… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in… — David Frum Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris 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
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“The three decades following the Second World War were prolific breeders of myth. The two great military victories on opposite sides of… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image