All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
“In 1913, the Anti-Saloon League attempted a constitutional amendment prohibiting liquor, but the movement didn't gain momentum until World War I, thanks… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus...… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“First, the very idea that there should be any serious kind of health insurance for Americans (beyond tiny elites) simply did not… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
“Queen Lily Ruckler, negotiations have ceased with the Commoner leaders of the world. The time for attempting peace is over. There is… — scarlett Dawn Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
“Using a daring and audacious method, the citizens of Konstanz in Germany managed to prevent allied forces from dropping a single bomb… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries.… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“The three decades following the Second World War were prolific breeders of myth. The two great military victories on opposite sides of… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought… — Rose Pastor Stokes Copy Share Image
I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
At every stage since World War II, people have assumed that what's happening today will happen forever. Universally, that's been wrong. I… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“A t the end of World War II, the Nuremberg war tribunal sentenced the Waffen SS, possibly the finest fighting force the… — Hillblad (ed.), Thorolf Copy Share Image
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
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