After Quote by Anonymous

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

— Chris Grayling

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

— Ernie Pyle

Europe cannot survive another world war.

— Christian Lous Lange

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

— Stephen Bayley

I think I was unprepared for war.

— George W. Bush

War is the usual condition of Europe.

— Peter Kropotkin

“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen…

— Max Hastings

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The…

— Virginia Postrel

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

— Herman Kahn

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

— Anonymous