Human nature Quote by William Golding

“World War Two had certainly made everyone very tough.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“was fighting the war on a level where it might actually mean something, might have some use, might be a matter of changing people’s…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. Many people are twice as smart as they…

— Richard J. Maybury

It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand…

— Vannevar Bush

“We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know…

— Jackie French

“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

“two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life.”

— Tony Judt

“the nature of soldiers in certain instances could turn well meaning, good people into tools of oppression.”

— Andreas Christensen

“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that Planet Earth…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how…

— Antony Beevor

“No matter how inflexibly the world was clamoring for war and heroism, honor and other outmoded ideals, no matter how remote and unlikely every…

— Hermann Hesse