It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“SR: "We are talking of a world war." AQ: "And that makes you sweat, son?" SR: "Heavens, man! Doesn't it you?" AQ:… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth… — Ruby Tandoh Copy Share Image
In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the global media to film the unspeakable hell of the Holocaust. General Eisenhower feared there would come… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“Prewar.” It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people’s minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that.… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“What you believe in isolation becomes true for you in isolation. A belief with another becomes true for you two that others… — Cosmo Starlight Copy Share Image
The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Racial inequity in how the immense benefits of the original G.I. Bill were disbursed are well-documented, and we've all seen how these… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
“The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, still carried the name given to it in the year 330, when it became the… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image
“ Dan: We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's… — Andrew-Lee Potts Copy Share Image
