Empires Quote by Paul Keating

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen…

— Max Hastings

The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions -…

— Edmond Taylor

“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

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England,…

— Tony Benn

The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how…

— Ronald Lauder

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense…

— Ernst Haeckel

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially…

— Emily Greene Balch

You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of Europe had…

— Christopher McQuarrie

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how…

— Gertrude Stein

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The…

— Monica Crowley

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in…

— Antony Beevor