World War Ii Quotes - Page 23

• After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
  
  Humanity has understood nothing.
  
  Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
  
  The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

  Irena Sendler

  Religious, War, Humility

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• I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  War, Grandmother, Nurse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Class

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• My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

  Kenneth Arrow

  War, World, Study

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• This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

  Joseph Stalin

  War, People, Ordinary

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• Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Soldier, Battle

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, Profound

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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• My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

  Darrell Issa

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

  Al Yankovic

  Peace, Military, War

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• There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Class, Ivy

  "DRUDGE MATCH: Camille Paglia Gets Intimate With The Shady Wizard Of The Web". Interview with Matt Drudge, freerepublic.com. November 6, 2003.

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• "World War III, was the Cold War".

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  War, Victory, World

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• When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

  Oscar Levant

  Friends, War, Boards

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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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• The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

  George Crumb

  War, Sound, World

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• War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  War, America, Would Be

  "Eyeing the Enemy". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 16, 2007.

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• After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

  Hugh Bonneville

  War, World, Estates

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

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• Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

  John Cornyn

  War, Recovery, Law

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• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  Warren Christopher

  War, President, World

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• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  Ken Follett

  War, Writing, World

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• It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

  Frank Carlucci

  War, Germany, World

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• Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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• We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

  Rand Paul

  War, Doctors, Needs

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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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• Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of the Roman Empire. They even survived the Dark Ages, when almost no one could read and each book had to be copied by hand. They aren't going to be killed off by the Internet.

  Vicki Myron

  War, Book, Fall

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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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