First World War Quotes

41 First World War quotes by 37 unique authors

• The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in… — Emily Greene Balch
• I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World… — David Icke
• American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were… — Colin Ward
• In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and… — Margot Livesey
• The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans… — Unknown Author
• Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles… — Unknown Author
• The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but… — Unknown Author
• There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of… — Ernst Haeckel
• It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that… — J. Maarten Troost
• After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output… — John Boyd Orr
• There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of… — Douglas Hurd
• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he… — Art Linkletter
• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who… — Rene Cassin
• I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war… — Fritz Sauckel
• In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
• I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing… — Margaret Thatcher
• It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the… — Noam Chomsky
• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild
• 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
• 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
• 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

Who Wrote These First World War Quotes

37 authors contributed a total of 41 First World War Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 First World War Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 First World War Quotes by Noam Chomsky
• 2 First World War Quotes by Adam Hochschild
• 1 First World War Quote by Whittaker Chambers
• 1 First World War Quote by Vladimir Putin
• 1 First World War Quote by Trevor Nunn
• 1 First World War Quote by Tom Hiddleston
• 1 First World War Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 First World War Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• 1 First World War Quote by Robyn Davidson
• 1 First World War Quote by Rene Cassin
• 1 First World War Quote by Pat Barker
• 1 First World War Quote by Margot Livesey
• 1 First World War Quote by Margaret Thatcher
• 1 First World War Quote by Laurie R. King
• 1 First World War Quote by Kevin Myers
• 1 First World War Quote by John Boyd Orr
• 1 First World War Quote by Jill Lepore
• 1 First World War Quote by J. Maarten Troost
• 1 First World War Quote by George W. S. Trow
• 1 First World War Quote by George Grosz
• 1 First World War Quote by Fritz Sauckel
• 1 First World War Quote by Ernst Haeckel
• 1 First World War Quote by Erich Fromm
• 1 First World War Quote by Emily Greene Balch