Uhlan/history/world War I

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

    “The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.”
    —Erma Brombeck (20th century)

    “With all of its bad influences, T.V. is not to be feared.... It can be a fairly safe laboratory for confronting, seeing through, and thus being immunized against unhealthy values so as to be “in the world but not of it.””
    —Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)

    “My curse on plays
    That have to be set up in fifty ways,
    On the day’s war with every knave and dolt,
    Theater business, management of men.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)