Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“How could sixty-two million people vote for someone they heard on tape bragging about repeated sexual assault? How could he attack women,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
“I read Tom Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation. This book celebrates the virtues of the generation that grew up between the two… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“WGHB started as a Clearwater, Florida radio station in 1925. By 1927, its call letters changed to WFLA and it moved to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many… — Sarah Helm Copy Share Image
“Had I made the right decision to give up law school—the “safe” choice—to pursue my passion—a career in broadcast journalism? Would I… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Freed of the burden I had been carrying, I moved on, this time circling east. Under an overpass at Nogizaka, north of… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“It is true that as World War II recedes into the mists of time, almost all big-hearted progressives or liberals (or whatever… — R. Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I'm glad to see a lot of patriotism in this country - I haven't seen that since World War II. — Rudy Boesch Copy Share Image
In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes -… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. If conservatives get to call universal health care "socialized medicine," I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
