Quotes of: World-war-ii Keyword

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

James Fallows

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Jane Smiley

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Michael Ignatieff

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Patrick Chappatte

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

Peter DeFazio

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

Philippe Perrin

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Russell Banks

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

Robert Capa

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Robert Walpole

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

Stephen Hadley

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

Tim Hetherington

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

William Odom

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Will Rogers

It is easier to wage war with wise enemies than be at peace with foolish friends.

Afghan

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

German

It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is “the biggest” of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance...

The Absolute at Large

We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to get into the workforce because of the world war, what did they start doing? They started having ...

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

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