Quotes tagged ‘World War II’

“I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; they're all here. This is your opportunity. Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murd…”

— Steven Zaillian, Oskar Schindler, Liam Neeson, imdb.com

“It’s a catastrophe. It means that we learn half the lesson. We sort of learned half the lesson of the 20th century, right? And thank God we sort of learned half the lesson. But the other half has not been learned, and that’s not acceptable, not in the least. The data in the United States indicates t…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

“I think we have been able to box in the more unfortunate elements of the right. That’s probably a consequence, mostly, of moral deliberations undertaken after World War II. We seem to have come to a pretty general consensus, I would say, that claims of ethnic or racial superiority place you outside…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

“I was in such need to become somebody. I grew up in this little town in Austria, and it was after the Second World War. It was miserable. There was starvation. People were angry because they just lost the war. And there was frustration, alcoholism, all of those things. It was a tough life. And so I…”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger, amazon.com

“This whole beautiful country, to which we have given our souls, is utterly doomed. It's going to be wiped out of human memory. Our entire heritage, even our name, our ancestors' names, wiped out, all wiped out!”

— Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Count von Kaltenborn, Armin Mueller-Stahl, imdb.com

“Albert Speer: The war is lost. Adolf Hitler: [shouting] The war is not lost! The war is not lost! The war will never be lost! We're gonna beat 'em, we're gonna beat 'em all!”

— John Gay, 'Adolph Hitler', Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“Crowley: Armageddon is days away and we lost the Antichrist. Why did the powers of Hell have to drag me into this anyway? Aziraphale: Well, don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure it's because of all those memos you kept sending them, saying how amazingly well you were doing. Crowley: Is it my f…”

— Neil Gaiman, Aziraphale, Michael Sheen, imdb.com

“As comics writers we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk.”

— Stan Lee, reformjudaismmag.net

“It’s this willingness to make a blood sacrifice of minorities in exchange for 'normalcy' or prosperity that has observers drawing uncomfortable comparisons between then and now.”

— The Conversation, theconversation.com

“[Rogers and Romanoff have booted up an old computer in an abandoned WWII S.H.I.E.L.D base for information... and discover that the computer AI is Dr. Arnim Zola's preserved consciousness] Steve: How did you get here? Dr. Arnim Zola: Invited. Natasha: It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. S.…”

— Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson, imdb.com

“Lou: I haven't been this mad at anybody since…1944. Yeah…1944. That was the last time I let it all out. Mary: Did anything—much—happen? Lou: Huh? Oh. I captured a town in Germany.”

— Treva Silverman, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

“We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.”

— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com

“We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back.”

— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com

“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death—the seas bear only commerce men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed.”

— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com

“So much blood has already been shed for the ideals which we cherish, and for which Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived and died, that we dare not permit even a momentary pause in the hard fight for victory.”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“Some information and observations of recent date have led me to draw up plans that I would like to bring to your attention. This concerns Jehovah’s Witnesses....How are we going to govern and pacify Russia when...we will have conquered vast areas of its territory?...All forms of religion and the pac…”

— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org

“Mrs. Greenstone, I am 59 years old. I am black and I have lived with and fought racism my entire life. I have been in prison 23 times—serving 28 months in a federal penitentiary and 30 days on a North Carolina chain gang, among other punishments. I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction.…”

— Bayard Rustin, huffingtonpost.com

“By the end of World War II Great Britain was financially and politically exhausted. This weakness was exploited by Mohandas Gandhi and his cohorts in India during their own struggle against British rule. Nigerian veterans from different theaters of the war had acquired certain skills—important milit…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Do you know why no one remembers your name? It's because no one wants to remember your name. There's too many Smiths, DiMattos and O'Keefes and O'Briens, who show up here, replacing Toccoa men that you dumb replacements got killed in the first place! And they're all like you! They're all piss and vi…”

— Erik Jendresen, John Orloff, Frank Perconte, James Madio, imdb.com

“Nixon: Hitler's dead. Liebgott: Holy shit. Nixon: Shot himself in Berlin. Bull: Is the war over, sir? Nixon: No. We have orders to Berchtesgaden. We're gonna move out in one hour. Webster: Why? The man's not home. Should've killed himself three years ago, saved us a lot of trouble. Nixon: Yeah, he s…”

— Erik Jendresen, John Orloff, Joseph Liebgott, Ross McCall, imdb.com