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Letter "W" » World War I
«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»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
Ronald, terrain, warfare, World War I
«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| About:
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
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«The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Chance,
War
| Keywords:
hurts, mischance, multiplied by, multiplies, multiply, multiplying, wars, World War I
«If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.»
Author: Robin Williams
| Keywords:
days, intense, Just War, negotiation, negotiations, ran, wars, World War I
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
bloody, charge, commonly, large scale, objections, pacifist, pacifists, refutation, refutations, scale, urged, votes, world war, World War I
«I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
War
| Keywords:
fought, get stuck, III, known, sticks, stick in, stick on, stick out, stick up, stones, the sticks, war, weapons, world war, World War I
«I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
fatherland, Fatherlands, feud, feuds, horror, look upon, World War I
«If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Peace
| Keywords:
carry, carry on, In this World, The Children, to begin with, World War I
«If we are to reach peace in this world and if we are to carry on a war against war, we shall have to begin with the children»
«It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Age,
Generations
| Keywords:
acted, debts, generation, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, One half, principle, wars, World War I
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