Recipient World War

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

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

“The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who, on grounds of decorum and morality, avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went or you didn’t, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”
—Linda Grant (b. 1949)