History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union. — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
“I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Tell the British people if the Iraqis are subjected to aggression or humiliation they would fight bravely. Just as the British people… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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