World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“The glow of the Mathnawî’s inspiration has never been extinguished in Bosnia, even as its people were forced to endure trying hardships,… — Emin Lelic Copy Share Image
The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“The way I see it right now, the United States of America has destroyed itself, or is destroying itself from within, thus… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“You’ve seen what this drug can do. I assure you it is just the beginning. If jurda parem is unleashed on the… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Weale had joined the Scouts from the regular army within a few weeks of it being formed. The regiment’s ethos was inspired… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
“The irony, of course, is that not long ago, it was Trump’s own ancestors—German American immigrants—who were the demons of the day,… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II… — Stefan Tanaka Copy Share Image
After World War II, defending America in the modern world required new intelligence agencies, the unification of the armed services under a… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War a giant puffball was found under an oak tree in Kent, and was suspected of being a… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true… — Haim Harari Copy Share Image
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious,… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
“He wants to believe that Shakespeare wrote all those books, that Lincoln fought the Civil War to free the slaves and the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls.… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Then again, it didn’t take me long in the world of corporate law to realize that truth is an afterthought in court.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
![“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ee/george-orwell-57_life_the-idea-that-you-can-somehow-remain-alo_925003.jpg)
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