World War Ii Quotes - Page 5

• If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

  Sun Myung Moon

  War, Seven Years, Unification Church

  "True God's Day". Sun Myung Moon's speech in Brazil, as translated by Jung Choe, www.unification.net. January 1, 1997.

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• Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Thinking

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Distance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

  Bonnie Bassler

  War, Quality, Antibiotics

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• All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Age, Different

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• The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

  Gertrude Stein

  Truth, War, Years

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.133, Random House

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• This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

  Marv Levy

  Football, War, Winning

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• In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

  C. L. R. James

  War, Government, World

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• I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, War, Oddities

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.

  Greg Iles

  War, Book, Writing

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• German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.

  George W. Bush

  War, People, Evil

  "Raw Data: Text of Bush Interview". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2003.

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• I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Children, War

  Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.105, Yale University Press

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• The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Japan, Games

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• What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Evil, Looks

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.108, Haymarket Books

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• For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.

  Warren Farrell

  War, Self, Years

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Hero, World

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.)

  Anatol Rapoport

  War, Hero, Soldier

  Anatol Rapoport's statement (1988) as quoted in William Poundstone "Prisoner's Dilemma", 1992.

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

  Paul Krugman

  War, Needs, World

  "Franklin Delano Obama?". www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2008.

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• I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

  Selma Diamond

  War, Humor, People

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• Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters forever, and the German example after the German victory in World War II will also serve to bring about the destruction of the Jewish world tormentors on other continents.

  Julius Streicher

  War, People, Forever

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 57), 1997.

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• Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

  Michio Kaku

  War, Years, Civilization

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• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  War, Epic, Technology

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• When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

  John Mearsheimer

  War, Army, Soldier

  John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.371, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].

  Golda Meir

  Children, War, Coffee

  Golda Meir's speech as acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department at the Jewish Agency Executive meeting in Arab Haifa (May 6, 1948) as quoted in Benny Morris "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited" (pp. 309-310), January 15, 2004.

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