World War Quotes

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us.

For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn't just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened...it tells you WHY it happened!

My book "Bamboo Walls" is forever because the Djojobojo Prophecy is timeless!

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, ” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed.

There are so many sad people nowadays that sadness looks normal.

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

She loves him sobut he didn't stay.The wind can't blowthis storm away.

It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, " wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

All blood runs red.

Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.

Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.

Lovely high ceilings, ' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.