First World Quotes

89 quotes by 84 authors

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought.… — A J P Taylor
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand… — Kevin Myers
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities… — Erich Fromm
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of… — Antonio Tabucchi
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the… — Trevor Nunn
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into… — Chris Terrio
The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the… — Charles Derber
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start… — George Grosz
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I… — Alexis Arguello
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World… — Elliott Carter
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do… — Cobi Jones
Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea… — Cobi Jones
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may… — Bill McKibben
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1. — Craig Reucassel
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions. — Pauline Hanson
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child,… — Tom Hiddleston
The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added… — Tim Berners-Lee
My father was in the First World War. — Doris Lessing
After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars.… — Eric Liu

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