“You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.” PeopleKnowsWarTogetherPoliticalNationsDifferencesReligiousForgetLeaderPeriodsBandHatredCrisisAngryLocalsExplanationLatterGenocideSuspicionUnitsHostilityWhipsMassacresAntagonismTogether As OnePolitical DifferencesReligious Hatred Author:Taylor Caldwell
“It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.” MenShouldWarEndsCountryStoriesHomeNationsSuccessfulSacrificePrideColdPeriodsGratitudeCostDegreesMen And WomenDignityExtraordinarySoldierEvery ManTreatedAcknowledgeDistinctionVietnamDeniedCold WarVeteranMassachusettsOur VeteransReturning Home Author:Mitt Romney
“I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.” ThinkingMeanWarFictionStruggleEmotionalPeriodsResearchConnectionsKoreanVisceralKorean War Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldSaidWarStatesRememberUnitedPartyUnited StatesColdOughtPeriodsActivityLateOpeningCommunismFlamesCommunistInvestigationCold WarCompelledBlastOld WomanOpening UpCommunist Party Author:William A. Rusher
“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.” WorldWayFirstsHumansWellsMeanWarAgeStrongLossGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsPeriodsElementsAreasOptimismRegardCrisisPatternsWell BeingWar Of The WorldsWorld War IScratchesAdvancingDisillusionFirst World WarLoss Of Faith Author:George Pattison
“America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.” PeopleYearsWarAmericaReligiousSpecialSourcePeriodsEnlightenmentEuropeAttractionPersecutionRenaissanceFleeingReligious Persecution Author:Mitch Horowitz
“Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.” KnowsWorldWarStuffFoodGrewPeriodsAnxietyCookingWar Of The WorldsCulinaryWorld War IiCowsPotatoesHog Author:James Earl Jones
“I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.” ThinkingWarWholeRolesIssuesPeriodsHungFulfilledPort Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.” PeopleThinkingWritingMadeWarReadingWhitePeriodsSlaveryBurdenInequalityCivil WarFrozenAbrahamReconstruction Author:George Saunders
“I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.” WritingWarWantedModernPeriodsForgottenAfghanistanSovietAfghan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.” ThinkingWarEnvironmentWallColdPeriodsPostsEtcMentalityCold WarReflectingPost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.” WellsHas BeensWarCulturePeriodsEuropePostsDirtyAmerican CulturePost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.” WorldWarWholePeriodsStandardsCapitalismWar Of The WorldsRisingStrongestWorld War IiWorld War IHistoric Author:Kshama Sawant
“We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.” WorldMayWarEndsColdPeriodsMajorsTensionCooperationStabilityRelativeCold WarHostility Author:John Burroughs
“Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.” WarRightsAdventurePeriodsCivil RightsLiberalismAnti WarFbi Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn't quite fit.” ThinkingLooksTwoWarStatesReasonJobsCertainNationsUnitedUnited StatesCenturyCreationPeriodsFitPatternsAlliesHistorian20th CenturySequenceTwo Nations Author:Steven Knight
“Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.” WellsWarArtistModernPeriodsPostsPost WarExistentialist Author:Tilda Swinton
“It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.” ThinkingWayLittlesWarCulturePassionFunPossibilityPeriodsIntentionSouthEnthusiasmCivil WarFascinatingCelebrationComedicMisguided Author:Ed Helms
“The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.” WorldFirstsWarEndsCountryStatesAmericaFallGrowsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyEnvironmentCryPolicyPeriodsBenefitsFirst TimeUnionsPeacefulWar Of The WorldsSovietSoleDominantSoviet UnionSuperpowerSecond World WarComing To An End Author:Alan Bersin