Wwii Quotes

Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.” Pastel Orphans

War is a lie

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.

If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated from the normal human condition.

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?