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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
For over two centuries, each generation of Americans before us confronted and solved problems. They embraced opportunities and Americans have never had… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with… — Richard Bach 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 people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
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For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in… — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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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
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A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
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Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
![“[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.” quote by Paul Krugman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/paul-krugman-2255_barack_i-f-you-look-at-united-states-history-si_1148835.jpg)
![“There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the past 150 years of warfare are totally unprecedented in that we introduced a breathtakingly inefficient technology: guns. In the First World War, and this is…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/643/george-friedman-7436_ammunition_there-is-a-radical-and-unprecedented-shi_1996165.jpg)
![“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in…” quote by Golda Meir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eeb/golda-meir-5181_bread_it-is-a-dreadful-thing-to-see-the-dead-c_2702070.png)
![“When he served in China during World War II, [Ho Chi Minh] learned about Mao Zedong's tactics of guerrilla war against the Japanese (and later against Chiang Kai-shek's forces), and he translated some of Mao's works into Vietnamese. But it is clear that his own ideas on how to counter the enemy…” quote by William J. Duiker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98d/william-j-duiker-21821_china_when-he-served-in-china-during-world-war_2125987.jpg)
