World Wars Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes… — Diane Ackerman
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions… — Warren Buffett
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security… — Albert Einstein
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars… — Nicholas Stern
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and… — David Miliband
I mean, let's face it, it's 2000 and people are beginning to wake up on some level. I think that, as I was saying earlier,… — Gale Harold
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than… — Ronald Reagan
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is… — Edwin Way Teale
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose… — George Andrew Olah
In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two… — Boris Pasternak
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001,… — Nick Rahall
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired… — F L Lucas
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing… — P.J. O'Rourke
This is a story of a period between two World Wars â€” an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and… — Charlie Chaplin
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and… — Thomas Sowell
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported… — Mark Gatiss
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win… — Christina Romer
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and… — John Hoeven

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