World War Quotes

608 World War quotes by 496 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
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by… — Jacque Fresco
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize — Michael M. Honda
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set… — Michael Apted
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
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was… — Walter Kohn
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. — Walter Kohn
The next World War will be over water — Ismail Serageldin
More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II,… — Aaron Huey
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war. — Lane Evans
Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation... — Bruce Hutchison
We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being… — Jonathon Porritt
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside… — Laozi
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. — Douglass North
We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. — Daniel Yergin
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
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the… — Christopher Bond
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
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore… — Eisaku Sato
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and… — Harry Seidler
There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards… — Theo van Doesburg
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
A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why… — Arnold Beichman

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