Quotes of: First-world-war Keyword

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.

Santosh Kalwar

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

John McCarthy

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

H. Rap Brown

Unlike world I don't judge the people from their first impression.

Singh Rajiv

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

Debra Messing

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing ...

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

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

War and Peace

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

Lindsey Graham

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

Randal Cremer

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Abba Eban

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?

Jake Lloyd

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Elias Canetti

A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot ...

Hunger

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath - the postwar Labour government, the cold war, the arrival of the New Look in fashion, etc. But I remember it as a very e...

Lynne Reid Banks

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War...

Dmitry Medvedev

When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just contin...

Arnon Goldfinger

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there...

Jeremy Rabkin

I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of ...

Burt Rutan

Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived th...

Ishmael Beah

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House