Quotes of: Global-war Keyword

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

Italian

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Celine Buckens

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

Leon Panetta

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Pat Barker

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be br...

Doris Lessing

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

The War of the Worlds

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Lane Evans

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

George McGovern

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

George Wald

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, me...

Peter Joseph

[first lines] Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes... and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians... like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, bat...

A Beautiful Mind

[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

A blanket could be used to keep an iceberg warm. People are so selfish and want to stop global warming. Well, if you were a snowman, and were cold all the time, wouldn’t you welcome a little summer into your winter? 

Blanket

We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, g...

Ginni Rometty

I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.

Our love was so hot it could melt the polar ice caps. In fact, my passion’s probably to blame for global warming.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

It is clear that corporate America has an obligation to create a fairer, more equitable, more sustainable economy for no other reason than self-preservation.

Perils of Prosperity: Realities, Risks and Rewards of the Global Knowledge Economy

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissib...

Seth Berkley

We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing gre...

Thomas P.M. Barnett