World War Quotes

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but thats a little way off yet.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

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.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

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.

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.