On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
All leaders must be good communicators. But let's be clear, communications is not the same as oratory. Let me give you an… — John Baldoni 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
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
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Immigration has tremendously changed the fabric of this country. Immigration is what built our NHS, when Britain invited people from the Commonwealth,… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it… — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history - the Holodomor and… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Britain fought the second world war with men and money partly drawn from the empire and that, after the defence of the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, China, briefly united under Chiang Kai-shek, was split into pieces controlled by the Kuomintang, the Japanese, the… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“It was only after the Second World War that the US – with its industrial supremacy now unchallenged – liberalized its trade… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they… — Christine Granville Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that.… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I… — Vladimir Putin 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
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
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
