“America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.” WorldWarBigsAmericaSocialChallengesUnitedStruggleRightsLandRevolutionDepressionCrisisNuclearWar Of The WorldsCivil WarDreamerProsperous Author:Barack Obama
“I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.” PeopleWorldWarSeemsHappensAbleHumanityTechnologyCenturyStageRevolutionPeriodsMedicineMiseryStartingSpreadContraryWar Of The WorldsTragicFascinatedWorld War IiBetrayWorld War IEpicLiteracyIndustrial RevolutionToilingTechnology And EducationLonger Life Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.” WorldTwoWarEconomicTheoryRevolutionResearchResourcesFactorsMathematicalInevitableWar Of The WorldsLogicalStatisticsWorld War IiWorld War IRenaissanceOverdueMitMacroEconomic Theory Author:Paul Samuelson
“Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.” PeopleWorldWellsKindWarEndsStoriesFallCoursesRevolutionMythWar Of The WorldsDemonCategoriesSocialistAdoptedKoreaNorth KoreaSecond World WarDynamicsVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.” WorldWarBigsRevolutionMajorsEnglandFactorsFranceWar Of The WorldsContributionWarfareAmerican RevolutionSmall PartsGuerrillasGuerrilla WarfareFrance And England Author:Noam Chomsky
“We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In all over the world. It took different forms, but it was there, everywhere. In Greece it was in the Greek revolution, and so on. And it had to be crushed. In countries like Greece, it was crushed by violence. In countries like Italy, where the US forces entered in 1943, it was crushed by attacking and destroying the anti-German partisans and restoring the traditional order.” WorldShouldDifferentWarCountryFormOrderForceDemocracyViolenceRevolutionTraditionalRadicalGreekWar Of The WorldsDestroyingRecallsGreeceAttackingCrushedPartisansSecond World WarGreat DepressionRestoring Author:Noam Chomsky
“Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.” WorldWarAgeWonderfulRevolutionWesternPoint Of ViewWar Of The WorldsFirst World War Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in the last decade has gone to the One Percent. It's gone to Wall Street, to real estate.” WorldWarRealTodayGrowthEconomicRevolutionWallWar Of The WorldsWorld War IEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.” WorldArtWarCultureImagineRevolutionProgramJazzExtraordinaryWar Of The WorldsSecond World War Author:Robert Wyatt
“The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.” WorldFirstsWarRevolutionFruitChiefsCommunismWar Of The WorldsFirst World WarRussian Revolution Book:Witness Source: Witness