World War Ii Quotes - Page 6

• ...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  New York, War, England And America

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, War, Taken

  "Iran Prez: Move Israel To Europe". www.cbsnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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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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• I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, War, Winning

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

  Jeremy Grantham

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was typing other people's discharges and stuff. And my feeling was "Please, I've done everything I was supposed to do. Can I go home now?" That what I feel right now. I've written books. Lots of them. Please, I've done everything I'm supposed to do. Can I go home now? I've wondered where home is. It's when I was in Indianapolis when I was nine years old. Had a dog, a cat, a brother, a sister.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Brother, War

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• I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

  Tom Brokaw

  War, Quality, World

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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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• World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just wars there have been? Not many. And the guys I served with became my brothers. If it weren't for World War II, I'd now be the garden editor of The Indianapolis Star. I wouldn't have moved away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Stars, War

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• All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Mistake, Tables And Chairs

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.177, Random House

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• Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, People, London

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• World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.

  Margaret Drabble

  Jobs, War, Teaching

  Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

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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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• 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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• It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

  Ross Perot

  Country, War, Years

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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'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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• 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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• During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims.

  David Krieger

  War, Nuclear, Use

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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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• Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, War, Hero

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and applications in the physical sciences. Since World War II the discoveries that have changed the world are not made so much in lofty halls of theoretical physics as in the less-noticed labs of engineering and experimental physics. The roles of pure and applied science have been reversed; they are no longer what they were in the golden age of physics, in the age of Einstein, Schrödinger, Fermi and Dirac.

  Nicholas Metropolis

  War, Science, Engineering

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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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• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  Joe Baca

  War, Fighting, Democracy

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