World War I Quotes - Page 25

• World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Race, World

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

  Neil Sheehan

  War, Home, Soldier

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• I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

  Michael Apted

  War, World, Want

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• Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

  Susan Faludi

  Fashion, War, Shoes

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• The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

  Hirohito

  War, Victory, Tumbling

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• More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

  Aaron Huey

  Children, War, Iraq

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• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  Lane Evans

  War, June, World

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• Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

  Bruce Hutchison

  War, World, Canada

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• My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

  Douglass North

  Sister, Brother, Father

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• We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, World, Ends

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• After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  War, Forever, World

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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• A personal story of the horrors that Poles lived through during World War II. When God Looked the Other Way, above all else, explains why there is still a Poland. . . . One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.

  Arnold Beichman

  War, Way, Faces

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• The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Civilization

  "Philosophy: Who Needs It".

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• This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Victory, Vietnam

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.66, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World Government, Law

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• World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

  David Frum

  War, Fighting, History

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• Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Airplane, World

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• The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

  Eisaku Sato

  War, Order, World

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• Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Mean, Stories

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• The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  War, Goal, Essentials

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• By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

  Spencer Bachus

  Uncles, Memories, War

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• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  Walter Kohn

  War, Views, Years

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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• My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

  Michael M. Honda

  War, Apology, Years

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• More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

  David Frum

  War, Fighting, History

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• The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

  Naoto Kan

  War, Years, Earthquakes

  "Japan's Worst Crisis Since WWII". bigthink.com.

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