When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe in sun even if it doesn't shine ¦. I believe in love even if I dont feel it ¦. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird. — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we… — Doris Lessing 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 my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Daily media reports of China’s “aggressive” behavior and unwillingness to accept the “international rules-based order” established by the US after World War… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago, when I was 10, I played at being a soldier. I walked up the brook behind our house in… — David Kenyon Webster Copy Share Image
“Television* means ‘to see from a distance’. The desire in man to do so has been there for ages. In the early… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In an area so reliant on opinion there is also the matter of received opinion to consider. The old turkey of the… — Patrick Ferriday Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times. — Rasika Dugal 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
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II.… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others.… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I don't know what weapons will be used in World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
