Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“What you believe in isolation becomes true for you in isolation. A belief with another becomes true for you two that others… — Cosmo Starlight 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
The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like… — Jurgen Klinsmann 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
“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
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights… — John Burroughs 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
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
I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men,… — Mohsin Hamid 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 did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18… — Tom Hiddleston 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 had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And… — Ben Barnes 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
“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame 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
“Prewar.” It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people’s minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter 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
“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the… — Winston Churchill 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
I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's… — Andrew-Lee Potts 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
“The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, still carried the name given to it in the year 330, when it became the… — Louis Farshee Copy Share Image