The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I was mentally prepared to sustain serious injury or death, but before that day I never contemplated the reality of being captured… — Omanson, Oliver Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their… — Jimmy Fallon 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
My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II… — Hermann Eilts Copy Share Image
Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea.… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“It was the missionaries who became the brave storm troopers of Christianity, slashing their way through jungles, going where no one had… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“When at last we arrived in Mannheim, I found that my apartment had been rented to a family whose young son was… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Between 1931 and 1946, Pan American Airways had 28 flying boats known as “Clippers,” These four radial engine aircraft were S-40’s and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“Violet and I love dressing up, and scarves are the perfect detective accessories. Women working as spies during World War II got… — Gertrude Chandler Warner Copy Share Image
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor… — Harry Bruno Copy Share Image
“The Hell's Angels are very definitely a lower-class phenomenon, but their backgrounds are not necessarily poverty-stricken. Despite some grim moments, their parents… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“During World War II, a secret apartment in London was maintained by the office of the Special Operations Executive. Within it, operatives… — E.J. Wagner 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
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer 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
As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that.… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Racial inequity in how the immense benefits of the original G.I. Bill were disbursed are well-documented, and we've all seen how these… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination… — Lotte Lenya Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich 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
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
![“When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.” quote by Steve Inskeep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b6/steve-inskeep-10882_defense_when-the-defense-department-was-establis_2280980.jpg)
![“[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was…” quote by Lotte Lenya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97b/lotte-lenya-59535_admire_after-world-war-ii-by-now-we-are-used-to_2919456.jpg)
![“[Kendra] also referred to Tizoc Theron, one of the most powerful mercenaries in all of vampiric existence, as her "Tizzy". The Inquisition was "a dreadful inconvenience," World War II was "a little spat" and the fall of Midnight, the vampiric empire that had reigned for centurie, was "an…” quote by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aad/amelia-atwater-rhodes-9913_humour_kendra-also-referred-to-tizoc-theron-one_2704558.png)
