After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan,… — C. L. R. James 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
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
“Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature… — William Golding Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
To be sure, the United States will be eternally proud of our civilian leaders and the men and women of our armed… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that we didn't know history. Even if you only count the real world, we knew more history than most people.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped… — Philip Dick Copy Share Image
“In World War II, some Japanese soldiers preferred to take their own lives rather become prisoners of war. In Saipan hundreds of… — Harald Welzer Copy Share Image
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer! — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Like so many of the young men he grew up with, my grandfather Luis Lujan was proud to answer his nation's call… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image