Age Quote by Robert Hughes

“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more British lives…

— Arthur Stanley Gould Lee

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in…

— Allan Bloom

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had…

— George Grosz

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

— Douglas Sirk

“When we hear that "war" is made for "peace", or that "pain" is sought for "pleasure" or that "brutality" helps one "feel", in our…

— Susan Griffin

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere – that was…

— Douglas Murray

“People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World”

— Paulo Coelho

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

— Theodore Bikel

“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or…

— Andrew Dalby

The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries,…

— Walter Kasper