How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time,… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're… — Antonio Tabucchi 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
We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
A lotta stuff has been written about me that I never said. Stories that were lies. One guy wrote that young as… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
“After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to… — Kara Martinelli Copy Share Image
If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is,… — Jimmy Doolittle Copy Share Image
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever. — Russ Meyer Copy Share Image
“I told him about the Oedipal thing, about my father leaving when I was very young so I knew how to pine… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image