Second World Quotes

125 quotes by 110 authors

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and… — A. A. Gill
We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell… — Brian Williams
I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their sufferings… — Pope Francis
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women… — Fidel Castro
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. — George Carlin
I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for… — Antony Beevor
The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims — Jean-Marie Le Pen
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and… — Aleksander Kwasniewski
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in… — Ernst Zundel
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about… — Stephen Ambrose
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic… — Angela Carter
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down Londonâ€™s mall for Queen Victoriaâ€™s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain… — Mark Steyn
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,… — Pope John Paul II
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost… — Carol Vorderman
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a… — Bernard Levin
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'… — Dave Brubeck
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. — Traian Basescu

Who Wrote These Second World Quotes

110 authors contributed a total of 125 Second World Quotes, led by these top contributors: