I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I went on a school trip aged 13 around the Mediterranean on a Second World War ship. Seeing lemon trees and orange… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World… — Iain Duncan Smith 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
“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
“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
Winston Churchill inspired my leadership philosophy. I've read a huge number of his writings, especially his diaries from the Second World War.… — Andrew Strauss 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
... 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
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
“Berryman" I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The contrasts between traditional multigenerational cultures and today's North American society are striking. In modern urbanized North America — and in other… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro’s relation to America.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“[Israel's military occupation is] in gross violation of international law and has been from the outset. And that much, at least, is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There is a monstrous garden in the sky Nightly they sow it fresh. Nightly it springs, Luridly splendid, towards the moon on… — Margery Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The nations of the earth through the centuries of time have waged war to gain territory. I think ours is the only… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“On March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed by Germany. It didn’t seem to help that President Roosevelt had sent a letter to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise 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 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
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono 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
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless. — Hugo Chavez 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
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