Bombs Quotes - Page 5

• The savages don't have atom bombs.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Atoms, Savages, Literature

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• Anyone who bombs is my friend.

  Todd Barry

  My Friends

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• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

  Rene Magritte

  Atoms, Mediocrity, Atom Bomb

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• Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Smart, Mass Destruction

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• Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

  Andrew Motion

  Light, Flames, Tonight

  Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

  Terry Gilliam

  Political, Cartoon, Makers

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• Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

  Greta Van Susteren

  People, Truck, Free Society

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• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Bruce Sterling

  Suicide, Class, People

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Men, Numbers

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• Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

  Christopher Dodd

  Military, Iraq, Safety

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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

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• It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

  Elliott Smith

  Balls, Band, Ridiculous

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• We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Perseverance, Not Giving Up, Persistence

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• The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

  Diana Vreeland

  Important, Atoms, Bikinis

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• Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, War, Gun

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fall, Airplane, Sky

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

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• I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

  Norman Cousins

  Despair, Next, Problem

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• It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Target, Rooms, Operations

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• Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

  Cyril Connolly

  Small Numbers, Civilization, People

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• The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Hands, Sky

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• I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

  Rosanne Cash

  Suicide, Reading, People

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• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Men, Terrorism

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. I : The Two Poets of Saffron Park, 1908.

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• The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

  Willem Dafoe

  Stuff, Pumpkin, Mask

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• Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

  Dorothy Day

  Strong, Powerful, Reality

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.444, Image

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