Second World Quotes

125 quotes by 110 authors

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved -… — Iain Duncan Smith
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with… — Patti Smith
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis… — Steven Spielberg
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When… — Sylvester Stallone
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible,… — Robert Winston
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not… — Thom Yorke
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active… — Geoff Mulgan
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does… — Graham Swift
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in… — Kurt Vonnegut
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of… — Laura Hillenbrand
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got… — Robert Osborne
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. — Ray Bradbury
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its… — Martin Jacques
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. — Noam Chomsky
If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember.… — Asif Ali Zardari
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. — Elliott Abrams
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part… — Judith Butler
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs. — Stephen Kinzer

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