Post War Quotes - Page 2

• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what the reality is; they concocted an image that you worship.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Reality, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

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• All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

  Abdul Kalam

  War, Needs, Rebuilding

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• Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Husband, Father, War

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.223, Dial Press

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• We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, War, Order

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• I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dance, Dad

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. ... I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Thinking, Mass Destruction

  "Maclean's" Magazine, August, 25, 2003.

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• To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Years, Leader

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• It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

  John Mahoney

  Sister, War, United States

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• The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

  Warren Adler

  War, Loss, Impact

  FaceBook post by Warren Adler from Jun 25, 2013

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• In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

  Klaus Fuchs

  War, Doubt, Periods

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• I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

  Pierre Cardin

  War, Lucky, Periods

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• The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.

  Linda Colley

  Military, War, Empires

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• The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

  Denis Healey

  Country, War, Gentleman

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• The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Book, Quality

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

  Denis Fahey

  Fashion, War, Israel

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• My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

  Deborah Kass

  War, Order, Painting

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

  Jon English

  Baby, War, March

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• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  Ken Livingstone

  War, America, Issues

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

  Kim Young-sam

  War, Blood, Sweat

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• A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

  Dylan Moran

  Growing Up, War, Men

  "Dylan Moran Makes Sentences of Things". Interview With J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Children, War

  Source: time.com

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• Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.

  Stephen Mallinder

  War, Dirty, Europe

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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