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World War I Quotes

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

– Herman Kahn

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

– Julius Streicher

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

– Amity Shlaes

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in – it must have been in Chicago, ’cause we didn’t have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

– Abbey Lincoln

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

– Eliot Engel

I made a French film called ‘Merry Christmas’ which is a very European film. It’s a World War I piece.

– Diane Kruger

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

– Eric Kandel

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

– Forrest Bird

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

– Michael Korda

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

– Noam Chomsky

I’ve said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were ‘German dogs.’ They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

– Molly Ivins

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

– Kerry Greenwood

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

– Lester B. Pearson

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, ‘New Museum,’ to be an act of civil disobedience. It’s not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It’s painting as insurgency.

– Richard Phillips

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

– Richard Holbrooke

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t have a World Party.

– Vanna Bonta