Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or british:
“Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustnt take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
“The war was a mirror; it reflected mans every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”
—George Grosz (18931959)
“History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.”
—Alex Mitchell, British left-wing journalist. quoted in Sunday Times (London, 29 Dec. 1985)