What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving 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
We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about… — Mohammad Marandi 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
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
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The president sets the tone. He creates the atmosphere, and that can be enlightened, progressive, or it can be intimidating, depending on… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today,… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
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