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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
— Ken Livingstone
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
— Joschka Fischer
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization
— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
— Hugh Bonneville
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
— Irwin Winkler
Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.
— George Vecsey
After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.
— Herodotus
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
— Winston Churchill
If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.
— Patrick Ness
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
— Madeline Miller
After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.
— John Cullum
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is.
— Shelby Foote
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves ... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
— Bill Hicks
I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.
— Andrew Cherng
After all, plans are one thing; then the battle happens.
— Aleksandra Layland
It was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars. In the United
— Anonymous
Any time I spent with Ruth should be regarded as precious. War, after all, was everywhere.
— Nicholas Sparks
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
— Bob Crow
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
— Shaun David Hutchinson
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
— William Lyon Phelps
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
— Sam Kean
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.
— Margaret MacMillan
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
— Steven Pressfield
News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.
— Abigail Disney
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
— John Hewson
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.
— Robin Williams
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
— Michael Lewis
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
— Selma Diamond
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
— Eric Kandel
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
— Robert Mueller
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
— Dave Barry
CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded.
— Jay Leno
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
— William Westmoreland
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
— Kenzaburo Oe
The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.
— Jennifer Niven
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
— Julian Assange
I hate war ... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
— James Fallows
Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.
— Heather Mills
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
— Will Rogers
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
— H.L. Mencken
10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
— Alan Coren
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
— Stephen Kinzer
Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
— Ogden Nash
After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.
— Archibald Wavell
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
— Murray Kempton
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
— William Glasser
Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?
— Michelle Sagara West
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
— Peter Landesman
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
— David K. E. Bruce
Her netlink fished for information, telling her that the palace had been built after World War IV, when the city was little more than rubble.
— Marissa Meyer
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
— Ariel Gore
I can see the war that's coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers telling you what to think.
— George Orwell
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
— Al Yankovic
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.
— Gillian Armstrong
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another ... after the war is on.
— Robert M. La Follette
The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.
— Douglas Southall Freeman
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
— Margaret Atwood
Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.
— Jay Leno
Victory should never be handed to you; it should be like crawling up on the beach after war.
— Denise Wallace
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
— Lee Myung-bak
As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
— Megyn Kelly
It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.
— Denis Johnson
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
— Peter Ustinov
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
— Loudon Wainwright III
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
— Eamon De Valera
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
— Grace Murray Hopper
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
— Elliott Abrams
I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
— Martin Sheen
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
— Otto Von Bismarck
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
— Brooks Atkinson
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.
— Evelyn Waugh
After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.
— Steven Herrick
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.
— Martin Winterkorn
Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.
— David Foenkinos
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
— Gideon Raff
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
— Jan Karon
Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
— Philip Gourevitch
Anyway, there were more after the war than before.
— Hutton Gibson
Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.
— Sun Tzu
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson