Quotes for All
Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called ‘Why We Fight’ that explored America’s reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is … Read more
If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust – it’s … Read more
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. Esa-Pekka Salonen
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat! Erwin Rommel
Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead? Erwin Rommel
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. Eric Liu
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. Elliott Abrams
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. Ellen Glasgow
All my life I have said, \”Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs\”–and what a mistake. Elizabeth Bowen