Quotes of: World-war-ii Keyword

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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

The Pillars of the Earth

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

The War of Mists

War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.

War and Peace

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

Robert M. Gates

I know stuff about 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Star Wars,' but 'Star Trek,' I don't know.

Kunal Nayyar

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

Matthew Stover

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Charles Inglis

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

Carly Simon

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

George Lucas

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

George McGovern

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

Michael Morpurgo

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

Bob Graham

War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

Herman Melville

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

Debra Wilson

No one can give me advice on 'Star Wars' because nobody knows what I'm doing in 'Star Wars.'

Domhnall Gleeson

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Hugo Black

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

Graydon Carter

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

John Hewson