World War One Quotes
Collection of top 55 famous quotes about World War One
World War One Quotes & Sayings
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One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
— Herbert Hoover
I guess there was a war going on somewhere in theworld that night but it wasn't one that could touch us. — Meg Rosoff
I loved playing computer games. I used to be one of the top World of War-crafters in the world for a couple of years.
— Robert Kazinsky
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
— Mark Knopfler
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
— Bette Greene
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.
— Hojo Shigetoki
If we didn't know better we would love one another.
— Aaron B. Powell
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
— Martin McGuinness
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.
— Ruth Duccini
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
— Otto Von Bismarck
We have learned that it is better to live with one leg than to spend your life on your knees.
— Gregory A. Freeman
We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.
— Sergei Lavrov
Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?
— Elizabeth Berg
Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
— Annalee Newitz
We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.
— Condoleezza Rice
Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.
— Mahatma Gandhi
After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.
— Archibald Wavell
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
— U Thant
The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
— Catherynne M Valente
Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
— Elizabeth Berg
The moment we stop caring for one another regardless of race..is the moment we lose our humanity.
— James Morris Robinson
It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.
— Garth Ennis
I am German, yes, but I am not a Nazi. There is a difference, and one day I hope you understand that.
— Caroline Leech
Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.
— Heinrich Heine
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
— Rob Walton
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
— Richard Aldington
One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.
— Hojo Shigetoki
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
— Dennis Kucinich
Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.
— Elizabeth Bowen
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
— Woodrow Wilson
It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month agohe's choosing a world in which no one has to die. — Amie Kaufman
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
— Erik Larson
Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
— Iain Duncan Smith
The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in.
— Terry Pratchett
The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.
— John Allen Paulos
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
— Patch Adams
There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.
— Joseph Rotblat
My gaze lands on the digital clock on my nightstand as it flicks to 12:01 AM. Hours spent in Orane's world, and one minute has passed in mine.
— Erica Cameron
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
— John F. Kennedy
War is inevitable when the world is fallen. If you stop one, another will start. Redemption is the only path away from war.
— Jane Smiley
If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would.
— Carol Ann Duffy