Bombs Quotes - Page 33

• We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.

  Roger Waters

  Religious, Brother, Wall

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• I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

  Lise Meitner

  Manhattan, Scientist, Atomic Bomb

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• Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Science, Atoms, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Dream, Science

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 1, p. 7210, 1974.

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• So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Science, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.

  Frederick Soddy

  Military, Science, Men

  "In Commemoration of Professor Frederick Soddy" by New Europe Group, 6-7, 1956.

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• My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

  Raul Castro

  Dream, New York, Cities

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• Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Troops, Concentration, Taliban

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5066, NYU Press

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• Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

  Tupac Shakur

  Perfect, Intention, Paint

  Song: Gangster Party

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• Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

  Lionel Barrymore

  Thinking, Charity, Daylight

  "Fictional character: Martin Vanderhof". "You Can't Take It with You", www.imdb.com. 1938.

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• The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
  Ten thousand years are not enough
  When so much remains to be done

  Jeet Thayil

  Fire, Years, Done

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• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

  Gardner Dozois

  Revenge, Sprung Up, Would Be

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• Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

  David Berlinski

  Memories, Military, Eugenics

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.21, Basic Books

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• Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?

  Rabih Alameddine

  Needs, Nerves, Window

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• Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

  James Sallis

  Fall, Civilization, Two

  James Sallis (2011). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.80, Oldcastle Books

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• War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

  Eddie Vedder

  Hurt, War, Fall

  "Eddie Vedder sings 'Imagine' in response to criticism" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 22, 2014.

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• It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, People, Training

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

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• Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Order, Law

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Country, Justice, Expectations

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• The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, War, Nuclear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

  Edward Abbey

  Nuclear, Physicist, Humankind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, America, Slavery

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

  Ian Paisley

  Home, Fire, Catholic

  "Only Ian Paisley could have delivered that peace deal in Northern Ireland" by Peter Hain, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

  Arundhati Roy

  Opposites, Nuclear, Literature

  Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. September 18, 2002.

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