You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were… — Jonathon Porritt 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
“The fascination with automation in part reflected the country’s mood in the immediate postwar period, including a solid ideological commitment to technological… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century,… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Only in the Soviet Union did women carry arms and engage in routine front-line combat duty on a large scale during World… — Bill Yenne Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Castine is a quiet town with a population of about 1,500 people in Western Hancock County, Maine, named after John Hancock, when… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“[Kendra] also referred to Tizoc Theron, one of the most powerful mercenaries in all of vampiric existence, as her "Tizzy". The Inquisition… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
During a World War I armistice in 1914, a match was played between British and German soldiers before the real hostilities resumed.… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of… — Reg Whitaker Copy Share Image
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
