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
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good… — Carol Schultz Vento Copy Share Image
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“How does one become a writer, Harry? By never giving up. You know, Marcus, that freedom-the desire for freedom-is a war in… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
Aggression, it's the next thing to war, except you don't get killed. Aggression is what you have every day with your wife.… — Ferdie Pacheco Copy Share Image
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I think a cool war helmet is painted with red and white concentric circles, exactly like a bull’s eye. But I’m not… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
“We have talked about World War I and World War II, but could World War III be in our future? The war… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a… — Frederick Lenz 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
“As the war went on, opposition grew. The American Peace Society printed a newspaper, the Advocate of Peace, which published poems, speeches,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The point is that you have to work. And that's why the propaganda system is so successful. Very few people are going… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole nature of war is both stupid and fascinating. It's this big game, except people die. Yet we still keep on… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
“The boys organized air-soft gun wars, so eight sweaty, stinky boys are running through my house wielding semiautomatic pellet guns dressed in… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“The yin to the yang of caring is that sadness is felt just that much more because that caring is so deep.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria. A coalition that was led by the United States,… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Sixty-two years passed since that battle, I can remember it as if it was yesterday. It made me the king I am… — Muhammad Nusair Copy Share Image
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception,… — Anne Frank 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
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image