Second World War Quotes

117 Second World War quotes by 103 unique authors

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George… — Andrew Roberts
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land,… — Michael Apted
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. — Kim Campbell
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central… — Kenzaburo Oe
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign… — Fredric Jameson
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined… — Lee Kuan Yew
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more… — Jan Peter Balkenende
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a… — Jan Peter Balkenende
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought… — Albert Pike
The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have… — Jeremy Clarkson
On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a… — Laurens van der Post
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country. — Antonio Tabucchi
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations… — Unknown Author
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
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

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