World War Quotes
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For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
— Cathleen Schine
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
— Hugh Bonneville
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
— Douglas Feith
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
— Irene Khan
As everything in this world is but a sham. Death is the only sincerity.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
— Stefan Molyneux
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
— Kerry Greenwood
The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'
— Robin Williams
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
— John F. Kennedy
Two simple ways to win a war against the world:First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.
— Roma Tearne
There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.
— Nadege Richards
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
— Joan Rivers
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.
— John Maynard Keynes
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
— Winston S. Churchill
Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
— Sarah Sundin
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
— Mao Zedong
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.
— Konrad Adenauer
Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II
— Charles M. Blow
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
— Selma Diamond
We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests.
— George Lincoln Rockwell
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
— Dennis Kucinich
I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.
— John Kasich
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.
— Fritz Haber
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
— Albert Camus
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
— Robert Fisk
Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
— Elizabeth Bowen
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
— Woodrow Wilson
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
— Marshall McLuhan
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
— Elliott Abrams
In her head is warAll the time just war
I put her to bed
I bring peace to the world — Darnell Lamont Walker
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
— Radclyffe Hall
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say ... This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
— Winston Churchill
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
— Doris Lessing
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
— Bill Watterson
Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.
— Richard Engel
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A.S. Byatt
Without ships, we cannot live.
— Winston Churchill
People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.
— Ernst Reuter
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
— Elie Wiesel
The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.
— Orson Scott Card
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
— Simone De Beauvoir
There may never be world peace but there will always be love.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
— William Wordsworth
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
— Douglas MacArthur
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
The world must know what happened, and never forget.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A world without war is not in the cards.
— Martin Van Creveld
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
— Patrick Macnee
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
— Neil Kinnock
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
— Rob Walton
Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.
— Adolf Hitler
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
— Steven Galloway
It's a war of truths; everyone has his own truth, his own vision of the world. The truth with more firepower will win the day and reign supreme
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
— Ken Livingstone
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
— Ernst Zundel
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
— Erich Maria Remarque
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
— Clint Eastwood
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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
The threat of a world war is no more.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.
— Anthony Liccione
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
— Paulette Jiles
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
— Richard M. Nixon
Make LOVE ... Not WAR!Give Our World Peace And Not Despair — Timothy Pina
War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.
— Sharon Kay Penman
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.
— Agatha Christie
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
— Ronald Reagan
Lovely morning, World War Two.
— Thomas Pynchon
You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.
— Dennis Kucinich
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.
— Hojo Shigetoki
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
— Winston Churchill
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
