All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb,… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“...new discoveries show that American soldiers used the swastika as their symbol early in World War I, and up to 1941, against… — James B. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Very few people know where they will die, But I do; in a brick-faced hospital, Divided, not unlike Caesarean Gaul, Into three… — L.E. Sissman Copy Share Image
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters.… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“In Europe today, the capital/income ratio has already risen to around five to six years of national income, scarcely less than the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“For the Marines, it validated their claim of “first to fight.” They were the first Allied ground force to take the offensive… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“The Dadaist movement was born from the despair over the egregious death and destruction of World War I and the zealous nationalism… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II.… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
In the 1995 'World War 3,' it was Dave Taylor's first WCW match. I remember looking across the ring and seeing Dave… — William Regal Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden 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
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Just as the failure of the Paris museum project freed Rodin from the restrictions of a functional door, the end of the… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of… — Ad De Bont Copy Share Image
The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
![“The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent a thousand planes and, yes, we took out the factory sometimes, but we also took out the city. It reached the point where we wanted more efficient ways to destroy a…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/george-friedman-7436_awake_the-british-bombed-german-cities-during_2073212.jpg)
![“When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ab/elie-wiesel-341_arrogant_when-i-see-what-is-happening-all-over-th_3076477.png)
