World War Quotes

World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

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.

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

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

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

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

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

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I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.