There is no doubt
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared ‘European war’… will become the first world war in the full sense of the word. Ernst Haeckel
First World War
In the first World
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy. Erich Fromm
The First World War,
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. Emily Greene Balch
My entire life has
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I’ve always known, and it is that music that’s most important to me. Elliott Carter
Louis B. Mayer is
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation… he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light… the appeal of the movies is beyond the … Read more
The First World War
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions – but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock. Edmond Taylor
Fox hunting, there\\’s big
Fox hunting, there’s big fox hunting thing, there’s arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War. Eddie Izzard
I could not have
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. Fritz Sauckel
There is no consensus
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon – and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. Douglas Hurd
The automatic reaction of
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts. Doris Lessing