Bombs Quotes - Page 31

• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cutting, Understanding, Disease

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• I couldn't have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs

  Louis Lingg

  Home, Thrown

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• I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Views, Derivatives

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

  Peter Stillman

  Giving, Darkness, Faces

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• We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Israel, Years, Facts

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.

  Billy Rose

  Atoms, Plant, Certain

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• Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

  Greg Sestero

  Running, Weekend, Two

  Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Country, Order, People

  Conversation with Bill Moyers, June 20, 2014.

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• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  Irwin Redlener

  War, Mind, Transition

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• We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

  Eboo Patel

  Bridges, People, Stronger

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• When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.

  Stephen King

  War, Dirty, White

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.

  Isabel Allende

  War, Fighting, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• I remember thinking as I was doing the jokes for the first time, "If I can hear that very clearly, I'm not hearing laughter." It just became deafening, this buzzing noise. I mean, it was brutal. It was really terrible. Then I remember thinking, "At least nobody important, or anyone who I really respect, saw that." And then literally right when I went off the stage, Jerry Seinfeld got up and went on. So I was like, "Oh great. Seinfeld saw me bomb." On the other hand, I thought, "At least no one will be thinking of me anymore. They'll just be focusing on him."

  Seth Rogen

  Laughter, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

  Elie Wiesel

  America, President, Allies

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  Source: jontrott.com

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• A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Religion, Bayonets

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atoms, Violence, Atom Bomb

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Violence, Causes

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.218, Tara Publishing

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• The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tragedy, Violence, Moral

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.367, Tara Publishing

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• A bomb fell on Italy. It slid off!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Italian

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• Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

  Malalai Joya

  Gun, Democracy, Barrels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.

  Peter Singer

  Military, People, Political

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• In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Country, Acceptance, Israel

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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