“Barry, let me give you a history lesson, Ladybird Hope-style. When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself that its President feels called upon to… — Hunter S Thompson Copy Share Image
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He went off and fought in World War II. He had me when he was pretty old, so my dad's a World… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population… — Elizabeth Kolbert 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
“After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S.… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“At the end of World War II, American military policy, digesting the Japanese lessons in China, was to control air and sea… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II,… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“What started as a normal conversation quickly spiraled out of hand, and Neil had no idea how they went from the construction… — Nora Sakavic Copy Share Image
“The breakdown of the European party system occurred in a spectacular way with Hitler's rise to power. It is now often conveniently… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Responding to the claim that not just reading but "high culture" in general is morally improving, Terry Eagleton points out that, during… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“He served as a cryptanalyst with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and returned to River-bank to write an 87-page… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
“Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“(What Jim had seen tallied with studies conducted after the Second World War by the military historian General S.L.A. Marshall. He interviewed… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
With external help, even the countries ravaged by World War II recovered. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced some radio broadcasts with the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — BAH,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
