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“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.”

Ifs Way War Whole Young Sides Millions Cutting Generations Sacrifice Youth Flower Waste Destruction Distance Affair Myth Superiors Officials Survivor Meaningless Both Sides Wwi Flanders

Author:Robert Hughes

“American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.”

War Speak Sides Generations Air Hero Racism Fighter Islands Prisoner Combat Savages Desperation Refusal Brutality Foul Pacific Vengeful Barbarity

Author:James Carroll

“It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.”

War Whole Loss Generations Innocence Loss Of Innocence

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.”

Ifs Needs Looks Different War Would Be Today Lines Business Pay Generations Middle Honest Cost Bottom Oil East Global Warming Middle East Bottom Line Future Generation

Author:Ray Anderson

“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...”

“"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.”

Years War Stories Home Three Parent Cities Generations China Tales Loved Ones Tribute

Author:Mabel Cheung

“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”

People Way Firsts War Home Wanted Film Turns Parent Cities Generations Modern Shadow Islands Hong Kong

Author:Mabel Cheung

“If things do get better in Iraq, I'm saying as someone who thinks the war was a mistake. I'm saying that is cause for us all to have a huge party. It's a big deal if things get better. Because if they don't get better, our country is going to be hurt for generations.”

Ifs Thinking War Country Bigs Causes Hurt Deals Party Mistake Generations Huge Iraq Our Country Get Better Big Deal

Author:Tucker Carlson

“The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.”

“If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.”

People Ifs World Want War Ends States Fall Nations Enemy Generations Sacrifice Dangerous Victory Periods Europe Errors Affair Strikes Elsewhere Extermination

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.”

People Ifs World Feels War Today Past Remember Generations War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I New Generation Uptight

Author:Donna Summer

“I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.”

“Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.”

World War Wanted Stuff Imagine Generations Quiet Calm War Of The Worlds World War I Quiet Life Greatest Generation

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.”

Ifs Should War Ends Use Generations Should Have Neglect Tolerate Steel Hazards

Author:Joseph Straus

“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”

Years Children War Self Used Generations Produce Raised Parenthood Self Centered Spoiled Resent

Author:C. Sommerville

“'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.”

Knows World Way Trying Children War Hard Certain Parent Pieces Generations Example Hard Work Grew Amount Grew Up Picks Ethics Independent War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I

Author:Billy Joel

“The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.”

People World Way War Speak Parent Generations Trouble Climate Climate Change War Of The Worlds Consumed Second World War

Author:Bill Nye

“My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.”

War Vision Generations My Generation

Author:Fiorello H. La Guardia

“Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.”

Thinking Firsts Believe War Sex Generations Baby Horror Members Horror Of War Baby Boom

Book:Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

Source: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First

“I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.”

Years War Country Next Social Generations Glad Next Generation Calamity Best Year

Author:William Graham Sumner

“David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.”

War Effort Known Generations Information Directors Evidence Affair Iraq Following Revelations Serving Afghanistan Investigation Mistress Cia Classified Information American War

Author:Rachel Maddow

“We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory, a new generation of our Armed Forces goes forward against new enemies in a new era. Once again, we pledge to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and advance peace around the world. Americans have been tested before, and our Nation will triumph again.”

“My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.”

Ifs Knows Kind War Faces Suffering Parent Issues Generations Sacrifice Standards Tough Bills Clinton Bob Old Fashioned Urgent Tough Times My Generation Electorate Curmudgeon

Author:Bill Maher

“Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?”

Ifs War Politics Imagine Generations Tragedy Sentences Debate Avoided Website

Author:Eugene Mirman

“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

Needs Looks Persons War Order Next Winning Strong Brain Generations Politician Election Conservative Next Generation Statesmen

Author:Winston Churchill

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”

Believe War Form Political I Believe Generations Fascism Political Correctness My Generation Spine Correctness Linguistics Shiver Linguists

Author:P. D. James

“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.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826

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