World War Quotes – Reflective Statements on Historical Events

"World Peace begins in the kitchen."

Vegane Weisheiten

"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 origins of this horrific human tragedy lay not in Bosnia itself, but in the policies conducted by demagogues in her neighboring countries, especially the Milošević regime in Belgrade - policies that led to the violent dissolution of former Yugoslavia and the near-destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its most plural republic."

Haris Silajdžić

"The Allies did not bomb the railway tracks leading to Auschwitz, because they feared it would arouse the wrath of the Nazis; six million people died. In our case, an arms embargo led to "only" a quarter of a million deaths - an embargo that penalized only the victims, for the aggressors already had more arms than they could handle."

Haris Silajdžić

"Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system trains another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False. United States is in a state of war: undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system."

Juri Besmenow

"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