#world war

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#brain #cruelty #fantasy #heated #private

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#end #million #more #our #people

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#end #germany #go #ii #months

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#approach #better #capitalist #century #challenges

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#happened #ii #lot #sense #shaped

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#experienced #fears #i #ii #out

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #fifty #foreign #foreign policy #get

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four