Quotes about World war ii

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Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered? — Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home
The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, — Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down. — Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons th — Sarah Sundin, A Memory Between Us
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost — Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim o — Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train acc — Vladimir Nabokov
...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. — Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low d — W.H. Auden, Another Time
The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. — Teresa R. Funke, Doing My Part
The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my — Teresa R. Funke, V for Victory
At the laboratory, Turing designed the first relatively complete electronic stored-program digital computer for code bre — Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. — Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not quest — Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. — Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the — Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would — Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. The — Winston S. Churchill
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier
This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the — George Packer