War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 14

• It would have been very much better for the world if Britain had remained neutral and the Germans had won a quick victory. We should not have had either the Nazis or the Communists if that had happened.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Victory, World

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• Well, that's exactly the wrong attitude. That is not the attitude they had in World War II. You're attitude is that freedom means you can do whatever you want whenever you want it. And that sacrifice is somehow un-American. [...] But the idea that we should also be defensive about our flaws and our weaknesses and our vulnerabilities is ridiculous.

  Bill Maher

  Attitude, War, Mean

  "Cnn Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2002.

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• Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

  Neil Kinnock

  War, Labour Movement, World

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• The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

  David Letterman

  War, Japan, World

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• Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

  Drew Carey

  Stars, War, Violence

  "The Drew Carey Show". www.imdb.com. 1995-2004.

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• Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

  Eddie Izzard

  War, Hunting, People

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• World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, War, Climbing

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• I want to take my American friends back to the end of World War II, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formulated. A group of thinkers met to come up with ways and means to prevent yet another war. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt played a crucial role in assembling this group of people. And that is why the name of the United States is synonymous with the cause of human rights around the world.

  Shirin Ebadi

  War, Mean, Rights

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• When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing over there. Why they do it, I guess, is because historically, there were twice as many women as there were men after the World War II.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Teenager, War, Men

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  War, Names, Nurse

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• After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace.

  John J. Sweeney

  War, Creativity, Order

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• Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

  Dana Gould

  War, Moon, Names

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 29, 2012

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• The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  War, Light, Europe

  25 Years vol. 2, ch. 18 (1925)

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• The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  War, Numbers, Priorities

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• In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Mean, Government

  The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, July 9, 1955.

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• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  John Lennon

  Dream, War, Twilight

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

  Paul Robeson

  War, World, Destruction

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.

  Matt Ridley

  Real, Ocean, Pressure Groups

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• You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Labor Force, Years

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.

  David Roediger

  War, Lying, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.

  Petra Kelly

  Military, War, Deployment

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• I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.

  Roger Hilsman

  War, Fighting, Leader

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• I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

  Roger Hilsman

  War, Village Life, Done

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• This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's leadership in the world is a force for good. He does not believe that our strength is a place where security can take place. He leads from behind. He creates an environment that now we're creating the most unstable situation we've had since the World War II era.

  Jeb Bush

  War, Believe, Differences

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, War, Cutting

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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