American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
“Using a daring and audacious method, the citizens of Konstanz in Germany managed to prevent allied forces from dropping a single bomb… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary 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
“[Father Dmitry] “lived through collectivization, the crushing of the 80 percent of Russians that were peasants. He served as a soldier in… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that 'force multipliers' - squad automatic weapons - have changed the character of warfare once again, just as… — Roger Ford Copy Share Image
This world is full of insane people--who are led by even more insane leaders.Ego,revenge and conspiracies everywhere!Every country is trying to prove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries.… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to… — Sam Tanenhaus 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
The United States, working closely with the United Kingdom and others, established the liberal world order in the wake of World War… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Rights compliance helps effective outcomes, it does not hinder them. That should come as no surprise because the 'human rights' in the… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“In 1913, the Anti-Saloon League attempted a constitutional amendment prohibiting liquor, but the movement didn't gain momentum until World War I, thanks… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus...… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock,… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image