M22 Locust/operational History/world War II

Famous quotes containing the words locust, history, world and/or war:

    Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Bias, point of view, fury—are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours leveled? The professors talk ... about passion and point of view in history as a Calvinist talks about sin in the bedroom.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)

    There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    If we don’t end war, war will end us.
    —H.G. (Herbert George)