Second World War Quotes
117 quotes by 105 authors
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
— Lionel Blue
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the…
— James Buchan
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per…
— Jimmy Carter
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast…
— Ernst Zundel
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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
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In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the…
— Garrett Hedlund
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If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest,…
— Ralph Nader
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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but…
— Edmond Taylor
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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers…
— George Carlin
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I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in…
— Paul Feyerabend
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the…
— Alistair Cooke
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable…
— Boris Johnson
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In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain…
— Harry Elmer Barnes
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I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized…
— Cordell Hull
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