Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

The Haunting Memories of War: A Memoir of Father and Son

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

Oriana Fallaci

I carry my liberty with me. It is in my thoughts, in my head. Shakespeare is one of my countries, Goethe another. You can change that badge that I wear, but you can’t change the way I think. It is through my intellect that I can escape the roles, i...

Fear: A Novel of World War I

We prayed these wars would end all wars -- In war we know is no romance." ( )

Golden Heart

There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.

Michel Templet

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Robert M. La Follette

God does not make war? God makes us, and we make war. God makes war.

Aaron B. Powell

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

David Douglas Duncan

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world to...

Rebel Lives: Helen Keller

And the New York Journal of Commerce, half-playfully, half-seriously, wrote: "Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships ought all to be captured, and the cities battered down, and the world burned up, so that we can start ag...

A People's History of the United States

What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the inva...

Pablo Picasso

If the true God is not allowed to lead our lives society will continue to immerse itself into bad decision, poor planning and selfishness on all levels. This will lead to a world-wide revolution that will fuel more meaningless wars, injustice, horrif...

Delaine Robins

The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establish...

Love

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. Is this not what is actually taking...

Education and the Significance of Life

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real o...

The Revolution and Woman in Iraq

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybod...

Slaughterhouse-Five

People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until...

Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was indi...

The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas