Bombs Quotes - Page 22

• For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Book, School

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

  Jay Leno

  Worry, Remember, Planes

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• Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dark, Desire, Wish

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

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• When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.

  Brittany Howard

  Children, Real, Party

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• However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Country, Thinking, Sky

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Men, Cities

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3310, e-artnow

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• I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Military, War, Men

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.115, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Simplicity, Way

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• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  Steve Jobs

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Faces, Constitution

  "Scalia accepts infliction of pain to get key information". articles.latimes.com. February 13, 2008.

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• the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Four, Truth Is

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.38, Penguin Books India

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Proliferation Treaty

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• Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Fighting, Violence

  Speech as the official date for Indian independence approached, June 16, 1947.

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• Fear kills, want to kill.  Fear is destructive.  Love is creative energy.  When you love  you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, paint, write poetry, but you would not take a bayonet or an atom bomb and go rushing off madly to kill people who are absolutely unknown to you, who have done nothing, who are as unknown to you as you are to them.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• I have now played with both him (Cristiano Ronaldo) and Ronaldinho. And Ronaldo is top in Europe at the moment.
  Both of them in the same team would be like a bomb. It would be an incredible spectacle for the people.
  What's more, I am totally convinced the two are able to play in the same side.

  Henrik Larsson

  Team, Cristiano Ronaldo, Europe

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• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game.

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Self, Games

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• Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Atoms, Glamour, Atom Bomb

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• Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.

  Artur Boruc

  Military, Mistake, Guy

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• In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, War, Fall

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.

  Bob Hope

  Bombers, Hell, Fly Away

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• Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  May, Want, Likes

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• The `50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the `60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

  Robert Klein

  Nuclear, Stuff, Way

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• Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

  Jon Stewart

  Historic, Good Sense

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• There has been great excitement at the prospect that this atomic bomb or atomic energy is likely to produce great industrial energy very quickly, I do not believe it at all.

  Ernest Bevin

  Believe, Energy, Excitement

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