Logo
Quote by James Buchan
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and th

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war. – James Buchan

Other quotes by James Buchan

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. – James Buchan

Category:
War
Author
James Buchan
Read Quote

Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

Category:
History
Author
James Buchan
Read Quote

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

Category:
power
Author
James Buchan
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. – DanielHa

Category:
War

You cannot be politically correct in a war. – Rupert Everett

Category:
War

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. – Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007

Category:
War

The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Category:
War

Random Quotes

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough

Category:
Miscellaneous

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. – Epictetus

Category:
Attitude

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Art

Pop music has progressed. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

Category:
Music