World War Quotes – Reflective Statements on Historical Events

"Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part."

Charles Wright Mills

"A soldier who starts to think is almost no longer a soldier."

Heinrich Böll

"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics."

Albert Schweitzer

"The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us."

Robert A. Heinlein

"A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."

Robert A. Heinlein

"No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins."

Brock Chisholm

"Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have."

H. G. Wells

"If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best."

Neale Donald Walsch

"The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?"

Eduardo Galeano

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

Aischylos

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital."

Neal D. Barnard

"I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."

Henry Ford

"The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it."

Charles Wright Mills

"What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on."

Voltaire

"From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."

William Blum

"The combination of the silence of the masses and the sometimes overwhelming volume of this greatest global crime of all time in my mind is, in its relentless daily presence, the most eerie and surreal feeling I have ever experienced."

Unbekannt

"They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor."

Tupac Shakur

"Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems."

Ayn Rand