Postwar Quotes

36 quotes by 35 authors

Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an… — Mark W. Clark
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson
Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the… — Charles S. Maier
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged… — Eric Schlosser
Stalinâ€™s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order. — John Lewis Gaddis
Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold,… — George Antheil
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it… — Gustav Stresemann
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar… — Franjo Tu?man
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort.… — W. Averell Harriman
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.… — Ronald Reagan
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way… — Graham Swift
Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade… — Leo Szilard
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard
We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. — Corrie Ten Boom
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to… — Marcus Buckingham
We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the â€™60s rolled around, many… — Herbert Muschamp
There has been a good deal of comment â€” some of it quite outlandish â€” about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some… — Paul Wolfowitz
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam… — Peter Gizzi

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