World War 1 Quotes: top 48 famous quotes about World War 1

World War 1 Quotes & Sayings

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For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. — Cathleen Schine

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world. — Tom DeLay

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home. — Roma Tearne

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

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

Now begin
Famines of thought and feeling. — Wilfred Owen

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem. — Vanna Bonta

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power. — Michael Mandelbaum

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch

A story is a wondrous invention. — Chris Womersley

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself. — Winston Churchill

One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye. — Hojo Shigetoki

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile. — Hideki Tojo

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace. — Dennis Kucinich

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. — Smedley D. Butler

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

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

Shitting fucking bastard! Fuck off you massive cockwank!' - Misty Meanor, during a particularly stressful encounter. — Matthew Sylvester

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops. — John J. Pershing

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. — John Mearsheimer

Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over. — Adolf Hitler

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

The threat of a world war is no more. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. — Paul Johnson

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone

It's a war of truths; everyone has his own truth, his own vision of the world. The truth with more firepower will win the day and reign supreme — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There may never be world peace but there will always be love. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. — Steven Galloway

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. — Rob Walton

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee

A world without war is not in the cards. — Martin Van Creveld

The world must know what happened, and never forget. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries. — Richard Aldington

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. — Douglas MacArthur

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth