World War Ii Quotes - Page 10

• I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Thinking, Order

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

  Anne Waldman

  War, School, Years

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.

  Anne Waldman

  War, People, World

  "Interview with Anne Waldman: On All Kinds of Roads". Interview with Kurt Jacobsen, logosjournal.com. 2011.

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• Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

  Peter Bergen

  War, Stories, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, War, Men

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• First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Air, American Veterans

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• My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Book

  Source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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• I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Book

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.140, Melville House

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• When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.

  Wes Craven

  Real, War, Father

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

  Robert Reich

  War, Growth, Three

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mom, War, Home

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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• As president, I will ramp up enforcement of trade rules by appointing a new chief trade prosecutor and tripling the number of enforcement officers. We will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment new good paying jobs since World War II.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Party

  Hillary Clinton's Remarks From a Rally in Toledo, Ohio, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sacrifice, Judging

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions for the economic boom after World War II. As an economist, I can tell you, that is not true. In reality, it was mainly World War II that launched the boom - the massive war mobilization, the horrifying destruction and death caused by it, and then the reconstruction in its aftermath. he US was the only advanced capitalist country that was not bombed during the war.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

  Jay Roach

  War, Guy, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Rising, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.

  Viggo Mortensen

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Germany is not the only country that one could call post-heroic. But there is an additional aspect for Germany when it comes to this generally Western stance - one which Vladimir Putin would call decadent. For almost four-and-a-half decades after World War II, we didn't have full sovereignty. During this period, we existed in a niche of global politics. This experience of limited sovereignty continues to have an effect. Many Germans still have sympathy for the idea that Germany can exist as something like a large Switzerland in the middle of Europe.

  Heinrich August Winkler

  Country, War, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Past, Competition

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We have an Army that hasn't been in this position since World War II, in terms of levels and in terms of readiness and in terms of everything else. We are not capable like we have to be.

  Donald Trump

  War, Army, World

  Source: time.com

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• We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Recovery, Debt

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.

  Mark Shields

  War, People, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Land, Cities

  Source: thesaker.is

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