"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

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Source : Statement in 1942. "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won". Book by Victor Davis Hanson, 2017.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#War Quotes #Nazi Quotes #Delusion Quotes

“It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.”
“Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.”
“I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs. I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims, Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare, Wish America had universal health care... Cause ain't no help here.”
“It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same time.”

Source : "On a Modified Form of the Second Fundamental Theorem in the Mechanical Theory of Heat" (1856)
“A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.”
“But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.”

Source : Aryn Kyle (2007). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster
“My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.”

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