#world war

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #brought #cause #did #extent

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#action #determined #europe #even #father

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#few #how #millions #nameless #numbers

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. ↗

— John Edward Christopher Hill

#believing #going #i #killed #man

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#battle #fought #hard #i #like

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#among #away #europe #happened #ii

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

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. ↗

— James Cagney

#actor #best #could #dancer #different

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#beginning #consumed #europe #founded #full