If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“I let them do some simple arithmetic. In a group of one hundred people, how many assholes are there? How many fathers… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
“But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren,… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“To help me understand his combat days, Sheeran tracked down the 45th Infantry Division’s hardbound, 202-page official Combat Report, issued within months… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“As long as you have armies in the world, war cannot be avoided forever. It can be postponed for a certain time… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“We had trench warfare in America way before World War I. Most people don’t know that.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The Middle East is an immense focal point of all kinds of collective forces: economic, religious, social, ideological, and cultural. We have… — Ritama Davidson Copy Share Image
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant. — Ruth Duccini Copy Share Image
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
