World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. — Lester B. Pearson
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in… — Steven Pinker
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal… — Harold Pinter
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. — Joan Rivers
In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today.… — Christina Romer
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims… — Jeffrey Sachs
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was… — Jerry Saltz
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. — Martin Scorsese
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. — Simon Sinek
When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted… — Grace Slick
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
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War… — 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
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West… — Helen Thomas
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing… — Gene Tierney
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II,… — George Wald
World War II was the last government program that really worked. — George Will
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
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better… — Frans de Waal
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler

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