Quotes about World war

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War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
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
Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities. — Phil Kaye
When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty tha — Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack. — Ferdinand Foch
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
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post — Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs
There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the camps fall back to — Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
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
A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 196 — George Orwell, As I Please: 1943-1945