World War Quotes and Reflections
Throughout human history, the world has witnessed numerous frontal wars between two countries, as well as World Wars where many nations formed alliances to fight. It has witnessed them, yet humanity somehow fails to learn lessons from the deaths, suffering, epidemics, lost people, and ruined cities left behind by these wars. At a time when war drums are beating for a potential war of alliances between two countries, we have prepared a compilation of quotes related to World War.
Even contemplating the possibility of such a World War is terrifying, especially after a period of pandemic where we lost loved ones and whose effects are still ongoing. The war cries, before an anticipated famine resulting from production and supply chain issues and climate change worldwide due to the pandemic, demonstrate that humanity has not learned from its recurring history…
World War Quotes and Reflections
“Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.” M.K. ATATÜRK
The pain of wars lasts for generations.
The only winner in war is death itself.
Wars are bloody pages in history books.
War is a scar on humanity’s collective memory.
The language of war is the language of hatred.
Wars make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
“War is a human invention, and humanity can also build peace.”
World War is a history lesson where millions of lives turned into tragedy.
The fear of a Third World War never left people’s minds. Claudine Monteil
World War II left behind more living dead than those it killed on the front lines.
Yakın Tarihin Gerçekleri (Facts of Recent History), İlber Ortaylı
The electric and fuel-powered engine system, which initiated the second industrial revolution, formed the core of the technology used after World War I.
Georg Fülberth
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
A World War would significantly reduce the army of unemployed threatening all countries and would enable the power of the rich to implement their future plans.
Jack London
It is an institution established by the victors of World War II to maintain the advantageous balance of power they gained. I am amazed at the minds of those who believe this institution is the conscience of humanity.
İlhami Güler
For someone who has witnessed the outward gushing of evil and destruction since the beginning of the First World War, it is impossible not to see the intensity and ferocity of human destructiveness.
Erich Fromm
While a stable world existed before World War I; after the war, unending inflations, songs, and economic crises began to follow one another. This disarray into which the capitalist system entered unfortunately continues to this day.
İlber Ortaylı
Before the First World War, passports were not required for international travel; you could go wherever you wished. The war fought to ensure “Freedom and Peace” brought about this thing called a passport; they swarmed around it like lice. If you want to travel three hundred kilometers in Europe, you have to get permission from ten different national consulates.
Wilhelm Reich
Undoubtedly, in addition to the hypnosis triggered by the annexation of Crimea (March 2014), the rise in prestige brought by the unilateral bombings of Syria (from late November 2015) allowed for the rekindling of nationalist fervor and the “Vojd” cult (meaning “leader” in Russian; it was the nickname given to Stalin during World War II).
(What Does Putin Want?), Jean-Robert Jouanny
Much can be found in the diary of a member of the Social Democratic Youth League in Hamburg that fully reflects the general atmosphere in August 1914. According to this member’s diary, “The excitement of the people had increased, as could be seen from their panic-stricken rush to banks and markets. Most people were devastated, as if their heads would be cut off the next day.”
(The First World War), Volker Berghahn
For a soldier, war also means death, and to commemorate war without having seen death is like talking about a burning house without being inside it. However, we had been struggling in flames for days and personally experiencing the scorching fire. And we had bid farewell to many comrades to eternity.
Günter K. Koschorrek
Quisling is the name of a Norwegian Prime Minister. This collaborative politician, who wanted to govern his country like a “colonial governor” by cooperating with Hitler in World War II, was sentenced to death at the end of the war. In political science, statesmen who govern their country by cooperating with foreigners are called “Quisling.” Quisling is clearly the common name for statesmen who betray their country and people.
Uğur Mumcu
People watch the civil war in Sudan and a toilet paper commercial with the same insensitivity on television. After turning off the television, even if the civil war in Sudan continues, it is over for them. This world that humans live in is a simulation world. Since everything on television is just an image, real life also begins to seem lifeless over time.
Kollektif
The Baby Boomer generation was born between 1946-1964. The name baby boom comes from the high birth rates in the US – and many parts of the world – after World War II. The security and economic prosperity environment in the post-war period led many couples to decide to have children, making this generation the primary target market for marketers of the time.
Marketing 5.0, Philip Kotler
In the 113-year period until World War I, there were 27 wars, and 57 million people died. In the four-year First World War, 34 million people died, were wounded, disabled, or went missing. This war is a bitter fruit of European Civilization. Science and technology, which were deified, had demanded and received their victims. Widows, orphans, and the disabled experienced even harder days.
Hekimoğlu İsmail
What would have happened if the Academy of Fine Arts had decided otherwise? What would have happened if the jury had accepted Adolf Hitler at that moment? At that moment, it would have changed not just the course of one life, but the course of the world. How would the twentieth century have passed without Nazism? In a world where Adolf Hitler was a painter, would there have been a Second World War that killed six million Jews and fifty-five million people?
The Other Life of Adolf H.), Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
World War I was lost not only by the losers but also by the so-called winners. The world changed, and this changing world had to go through some suffering. So what was this suffering? Proletarian youths who had never worn shoes in their lives put on boots when they went to the army. How would the expenses for these be met? No state’s finances were in a position to meet the needs of these overly equipped large armies. The monetary system collapsed. Banknotes emerged. These unbacked banknotes created a separate economic crisis world at the end of the war.
İlber Ortaylı
“The inter-war period, which began in 1919 and ended with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, is the period that prepared Europe and then the world for a transition from one world war to another. This truly unfortunate generation experienced two brutal massacres one after another. Today, since 1945, we have not experienced a world war similar to the first two. However, there is also an anxiety in most of us, defined by the question, ‘Will a third world war break out?’ Since a historian is not a fortune-teller, it is not possible to find a definitive answer to this question.”
Oral Sander
World War I and II are undoubtedly among the greatest destructions Europe has experienced. Despite the huge and tragic losses in those years, it cannot be ignored that it was also the period when the most works of art were produced. Artists, musicians, and painters created their best works. Tolkien, meanwhile, was sent to the Battle of the Somme to fight against France in World War I. Here, Tolkien witnessed direct combat, artillery, rifles, and deaths, and eventually suffered from fever and was hospitalized in a military hospital. Returning from the front, Tolkien began writing The Lord of the Rings, dedicating the character of Samwise Gamgee to soldiers who never lost hope while fighting. The symptoms of “shell-shock” (post-war syndrome) seen in thousands of soldiers after the war, such as sudden blindness, loss of taste and smell, tremors, and anxiety, he used in his famous character Frodo. When Frodo returns to the Shire, he becomes a young man who has lost interest in everything, has nightmares, and wants to withdraw. Merry, Pippin, and Sam, however, adapt to life in the Shire.
Arka Kapak Dergisi (Back Cover Magazine)
World War Quotes and Reflections
