Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.

When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere.

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

War has had a beneficial consequence for our industry.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

There was not a lot of great Civil War literature written by people who participated in it. It was too traumatic.

The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence will pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

None of the Americans I spoke to want to nominate their sons for the Unknown Soldier.

The first bomb so far as our government knew had not had any impact on the Emperor or the Japanese war cabinet—nor did we have any other indication that their minds were changing with respect to the war.