Quotes of: First-world-war Keyword

[first lines] DuPont: In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new ar...

Equilibrium

For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confronted by the work of a dozen busy navvies digging th...

The War of the Worlds

[first lines] Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow. Stuart Tarleton: War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually ...

Gone with the Wind

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

Ed Harris

The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.

The Pillars of the Earth

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Harry Browne

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Justin Sane

Sad to say, in a present-day world that seems to be governed by clashing self--interests and material forces, where we have learned that idealistic rhetoric usually cloaks nationalistic purposes or even far more diabolical schemes, it has become incr...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's ...

Drew Gilpin Faust

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplic...

Joseph de Maistre

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battl...

Nikola Tesla

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had ...

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Aim High and Hit the Mark

Bahala Na (Come What May): A World War II Story of Love, Faith, Courage, Determination and Survival

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peopl...

Kit Bond

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.

Ryszard Kapuscinski