In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. P...
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. T...
FIONN WHITEHEAD War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is b...
IMMANUEL KANT I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of...
YOUNG JEEZY the most horrendous, unimaginable war crimes committed in Europe since the end of World War II.
RATKO MLADIC I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did...
ABBEY LINCOLN My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survive...
RICHARD BRANSON When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form ...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to c...
MORTEN TYLDUM Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much mor...
MONICA CROWLEY 'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World W...
DINESH D'SOUZA Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'
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A. J. P. TAYLOR We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about t...
GEORGE WALD The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were total...
CLINT EASTWOOD Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
KIN HUBBARD Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
FRANK MCKINNEY “KIN” HUBBARD Europe cannot survive another world war.
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LINDA CHAVEZ It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one alwa...
JAMES FORRESTAL I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's t...
ALBERT FINNEY It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: '...
ERIK LARSON As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
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ASHTON HOLMES War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and...
DAVID MAMET In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild ...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
JOHN MILTON Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.
JOHN MILTON The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a ...
ETHAN CANIN Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,'...
MARTIN VAN CREVELD My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has compleme...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, wa...
PHIL KLAY When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interestin...
DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE the Balkans are a tinder box ... World War I started there ... there's a great deal at stake -- the ...
IKE SKELTON The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of t...
TONY BRADMAN Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
IMRAN KHAN I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a pric...
DON MCCULLIN The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war ef...
SCOTT ANDERSON Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity i...
WILLIAM KIRBY You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war....
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LINDA SUE PARK No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. TAYLOR The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or makin...
WILFRED OWEN Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, ...
BUZZ ALDRIN Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues a...
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ANG LEE I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows t...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonvi...
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DANIEL YERGIN It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern As...
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EAMON DE VALERA The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, an...
STEVEN PINKER Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equit...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
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JAMAIS CASCIO I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
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MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River...
MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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