Without the railways, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened. I don't actually think the second world war would have happened without them. — Chris Tarrant 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
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
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King… — Tony Benn 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 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
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 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
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“The glow of the Mathnawî’s inspiration has never been extinguished in Bosnia, even as its people were forced to endure trying hardships,… — Emin Lelic Copy Share Image
“In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war… — Albert Pike 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 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
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
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
“What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the… — Gary Taubes 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
“When Seymour and I were five and three, Les and Bessie played on the same bill for a couple of weeks with… — J.D. Salinger 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
“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
“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
“Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside, or… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of… — Reg Whitaker Copy Share Image
We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But,… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live… — Christopher Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls.… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War a giant puffball was found under an oak tree in Kent, and was suspected of being a… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
