After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward:… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings,… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged… — Bob Dylan 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 think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the… — Holland Smith 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
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
