Came Quote by Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.”

— William Golding

“Racial mixtures after planet-wide wars, mutant births after the nuclear conflicts, had broken down the old intolerance against the "different." And out in space…

— Andre Norton

“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one of the…

— Terry Deary

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

— Freeman Dyson

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that…

— Nicholson Baker

Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a…

— John D. MacDonald

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

— Colson Whitehead

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women,…

— Rick Atkinson

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

— Jane Haddam

“Representations of pre-Color humans stand beside casualty statistics. One hundred and ten million died for Gold to rule. Then their bombers dropped solocene into…

— Pierce Brown