Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
As the only country which was bombed during World War II with nuclear weapons, Japan should be advocating that we should avoid… — Antonio Inoki Copy Share Image
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
But I'm a daughter of the American revolution, my grandpa fought in World War II, I have lots of family members who… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance.… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“though she isn’t stupid at all. “Wow, other people are mastering this, even people who were as clueless as I was in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“THERE ARE HUGE DIFFERENCES in living standards around the world. Even the poorest citizens of the United States have incomes and access… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime. — Susan Faludi 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
“Denial is like a glass wall, easy to see beyond, but impossible to walk through.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and… — Shari J. Ryan Copy Share Image
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
“Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature… — William Golding Copy Share Image
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan,… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Like so many of the young men he grew up with, my grandfather Luis Lujan was proud to answer his nation's call… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
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