World War Ii Quotes - Page 14

• For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Rising, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Recovery, Debt

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.

  Jay Roach

  War, Party, Artist

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

  Jay Roach

  War, Guy, World

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to investigate the situation in the camps and it was a pretty gloomy report. There were very few Jews admitted into the United States.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, President, United States

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

  Rick Perry

  War, Challenges, World

  Source: stream.org

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• We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are enshrined in corresponding international documents, and finding a way to settle all disputes without destroying the entire foundation of international law that evolved as a result of World War II is a highly delicate task. Therefore, I would like to reiterate that we cannot second-guess the course, let alone the outcome of our negotiations.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Law, Tragedy

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

  John Burroughs

  New York, War, Mean

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• Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route out of Nazi-Occupied France, I was hooked.

  Megan Chance

  War, Years, Want

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the frozen peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains in shoes that didn't fit, in clothes that weren't warm enough, with German and Spanish patrols searching for them.

  Megan Chance

  War, Book, Shoes

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sacrifice, Judging

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

  Albert Camus

  War, Struggle, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.180, Vintage

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• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  Bob Feller

  War, Europe, People

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• In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• 'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

  Billy Joel

  Children, War, Hard Work

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• Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.

  David McCullough

  War, Inspiration, September 11

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. Their devotion must never be forgotten.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Sacrifice, Honor

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.1598, Best Books on

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• I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, War, World

  "Journalist Andy Rooney Dies at 92" by Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.

  Paul Samuelson

  War, Two, Mit

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• What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!

  Calvin Coolidge

  War, World, Remember

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• I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Mean

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• None these organizations [terrorists] could continue operating without the narcotics networks, human-trafficking and oil smuggling. Addressing it requires a truly creative global response similar to that used to stand up against Germany's aggression in World War II.

  Ashraf Ghani

  War, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those things allow you to educate yourself about different worlds that you have to get familiar with.

  Robert Kazinsky

  War, Doctors, Soldier

  Source: collider.com

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