“[An old woman milking a cow refuses to evacuate from a village near Chernobyl] Old Woman: You know how old I am? Soldier: I don't know. Old. Old Woman: I'm 82. I've lived here my whole life. Right here, that house, this place. What do I care about ‘safe’? Soldier: I have a job. Don't cause trouble.…”— Craig Mazin, Soldier, Josef Altin, imdb.com
“Nowadays battles are just sort of a ‘You shoot up my town and I'll shoot up yours. They say that Americans don't play fair. They shoot 'em up all the time. I hope so because I want to finish this job as soon as possible and begin making an honest living again....Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans,…”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“When one has stood face to face with famine, with death by starvation itself, then surely one should have had one's eyes opened to the full extent of this misfortune. When one has beheld the great beseeching eyes in the starved faces of children staring hopelessly into the fading daylight, the eyes…”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“The soul of the world is mortally sick, its courage broken, its ideals tarnished, and the will to live gone; the horizon is hazy, hidden behind burning clouds of destruction, and faith in the dawn of mankind is no more.”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“That is how I see mankind in its suffering; that is how I see the suffering people of Europe, bleeding to death on deserted battlefields after conflicts which to a great extent were not their own.”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“He was driven to fight for foreign gods whom he did not know, far from his own country. And thus he met his fate. Now he lies there, dying in silence. The noise of the fray no longer reaches his ear. His dimmed eyes are turned inward, perhaps on a final vision of his childhood home where life was si…”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.”— Vera Brittain, amazon.com