World War Ii Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most, may be those parts of Africa around Somalia that are enduring a climate-caused and really record-breaking drought. It may be the greatest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. And of course, where humanitarian crises happen, so do political instability. This is the world that we're building and building fast. And it's the world that people are trying somehow to slow down. Trying very hard to bring down this fossil fuel machine before it does any more damage.

  Donald Trump

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  War, Average, World

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

  William Blum

  Military, War, World

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.162, Zed Books

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• I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

  Yelena Bonner

  War, Rights, Effort

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• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  R. W. Apple

  War, Glowing, Training

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• In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.

  Dan Carter

  Powerful, War, Book

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• The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.

  Doris Lessing

  Clever, War, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II, most of the European countries started to develop economically and socially, but whatever way the Catholic church they took a grip and they almost governed the country. I mean, we were almost like a dictatorship. There is good and bad, but we experienced an awful lot of bad, especially from the institutions that taught children the Christian brothers, etc.

  Gavin Friday

  Christian, Country, Brother

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.

  Les Wexner

  War, Character, Helping Others

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• When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

  Lukas Foss

  War, Shoes, Childhood

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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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• It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and the income tax was the answer to a populist demand: Let's go after the rich guys. We got into World War I, and they raised the rates and started taxing the rich. Then we got into World War II, and that's when they taxed everybody, because they just needed more revenue.

  T.R. Reid

  Country, War, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, World, War Of The Worlds

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

  Dan Simmons

  War, Age, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, People, World

  "Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 8, 2017.

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• We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years exists is that after World War II, the United States and its allies tried to build an antidote to what they had seen between World War I and World War II. There, they'd seen protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor trading policies, so they said, we'll build an open international economy. And they did that.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, World, Granted

  "Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 8, 2017.

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• An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances. Presidents Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II sought legal advice about the outer bounds of their power - even if they did not always use it. Our leaders should ask legal questions first, before setting policy or making decisions in a fog of uncertainty.

  John Yoo

  War, Decision, Leader

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

  Harry Seidler

  War, Technology, Earthquakes

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• In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

  Adrienne Rich

  War, Book, World

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

  Rick Perry

  War, Challenges, World

  Source: stream.org

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• After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.

  Oliver Stone

  Wall, Father, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of the Cold War. Like any president, he didn't come into office with a blank slate - he entered with an enormous inheritance of relationships with institutions, policies and the like. And in my view he is much too quick to pull the U.S. out of various institutions and various agreements, and he's been much too quick to question the value of allies and alliances.

  Richard N. Haass

  War, Office, President

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• I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good guys beginning to act like the bad guys. And when I studied the history of wars, it seemed to me that that was the case. Athens vs. Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians presumably the democratic state. The Spartans the totalitarian state. But as the war went on, the Athenians began to act like the Spartans. They began committing atrocities and cruelties. So I saw this as a characteristic of war, even so-called "good wars."

  Howard Zinn

  War, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the frozen peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains in shoes that didn't fit, in clothes that weren't warm enough, with German and Spanish patrols searching for them.

  Megan Chance

  War, Book, Shoes

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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