The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
“both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
In times of conflict, our citizens have always been able to rise to the challenge. Maybe no greater example of that ability… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Another steganographic system was still in use in the 20th century: Aeneas suggested pricking holes in a book or other document above… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that what we record here today may be the last events witnessed by any inhabitants on our… — Kenneth S. Murray Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“She told him the origins of the “buck dance,” when “white people would come up and say ‘N____r, dance’, and then start… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Within Germany, unrest fermented after Germany lost World War I, and the German people, including the workers and the military, detested the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro’s relation to America.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
