Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Hideo Kojima

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Jon Voight

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Kevin Powers

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Matt Taibbi

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Ralph Peters

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

Subcomandante Marcos

Charles: I just came home to say goodbye to my wife and children. Grace: Where are you going? Charles: To the front. Grace: I thought the war was over. Charles: The war is not over. Grace: You're not going. You left us once already. YOU CAN'T GO! Why...

The Others

The doctor who heads the trauma unit [at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany] wants to tell a happy story, too. He tells me that war is good for civilian medicine. I've read reports that make the same point: in peacetime, the cutting edge of...

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, ...

John Fowles

He who doesn't go to war roars like a lion.

Iranian

You cannot wage war without the sound of gunpowder.

Malian

Eternal peace lasts until the next war.

Russian

If one soldier knew what the other thinks, there would be no war.

Yiddish

I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncert...

End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at...

All Quiet on the Western Front

For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix made from metaphor. Thrust into a world which views him as the property of Gods and States and overwhelmed by an unrepa...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

...and I want you all to remember-that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the grea...

Number the Stars

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the wo...

Tigerheart

It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open...

Walk Two Moons