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![Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/990/989608/989608.webp "Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word Picture Quote #1")
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake! (First World War Quotes)
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II (First World War Quotes)
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War (First World War Quotes)
In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War. (First World War Quotes)
Fox hunting, there’s big fox hunting thing, there’s arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War (First World War Quotes)
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play. (First World War Quotes)
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics (First World War Quotes)
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word. (First World War Quotes)
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who’s got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it. (First World War Quotes)
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. (First World War Quotes)
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts. (First World War Quotes)
On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawingrooms into the manifold horrors of the First World War. (First World War Quotes)
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time (First World War Quotes)
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn’t fully appreciate. (First World War Quotes)
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, ‘Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.’ (First World War Quotes)
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a cordial relationship, and, indeed, Mehmet Ertegun may have helped insure that Turkey did not ally itself with Germany, as it had in the First World War. (First World War Quotes)
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world. (First World War Quotes)
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth. (First World War Quotes)
I was against the war with Iraq. First of all, they didn’t knock down the World Trade Centre. It wasn’t Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre. (First World War Quotes)
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that’s a joke and everybody in the world knows it. (First World War Quotes)
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere. (First World War Quotes)
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called ‘White Feathers.’ It was produced in the studio theatre at the students’ union in early 1999, when I was 21. It’s 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War (First World War Quotes)
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I’ve always known, and it is that music that’s most important to me (First World War Quotes)
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier (First World War Quotes)
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say ‘What does that mean?’ (First World War Quotes)
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust (First World War Quotes)
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone (First World War Quotes)
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared ‘European war’... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word (First World War Quotes)
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls (First World War Quotes)
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century’s major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians (First World War Quotes)
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