War Of The Worlds Quotes - Page 2

• The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Europe, Tolls

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

  Harold Pinter

  War, World, London

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Believe, Thinking

  "Putin Q&A". "TIME" Interview, content.time.com. 2007.

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• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  Dan Rather

  War, Years, America

  "A History Lesson" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Christian, Military, War

  "West must act to end jihad: Imam" by Frank Walker, www.smh.com.au. March 21, 2004.

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• She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, War, Stupid

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• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, War, Skills

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• The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  War, Leader, Alliances

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• Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, War, School

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• During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

  Simon Sinek

  War, Loss, Pilots

  "Look Forward: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

  Grace Slick

  War, Soldier, Age

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• What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  War, Thinking, Years

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". Interview with James Chapman, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

  Patti Smith

  Sibling, War, Kids

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

  Steven Spielberg

  Military, War, Air

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• The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Strong, War

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• People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Moving, Order

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• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Gene Tierney

  War, Ocean, Europe

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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• Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third.

  Mao Zedong

  War, People, Chinese

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• Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Looks, World

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• Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

  Mark Gatiss

  War, Home, Europe

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• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Our World, Way

  "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.

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• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  War, World, Firsts

  A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

  Khem Veasna

  Land, World, Native

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