World War Quotes
608 World War quotes by 496 unique authors
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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
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Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
— Kim Campbell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an…
— J F C Fuller
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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
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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
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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 Žižek
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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
— Herman Kahn
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When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood…
— Lukas Foss
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It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that…
— J. Maarten Troost
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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output…
— John Boyd Orr
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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
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.…
— Mancur Olson
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