Hiroshima And Nagasaki Quotes

• Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  Pablo Picasso

  Positive, Artist, Negative

  Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1946, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 2

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• The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Genius, Hiroshima

  Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1946, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 2

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• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  Albert Einstein

  Torn, Formulas, Foreseen

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

  William D. Leahy

  Children, War, Atomic Weapons

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Cities, Squash, Monsters

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• I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Awful, Surrender, Atomic Bomb

  Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

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• When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Beast, Atomic Bomb, Treats

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• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Japan, Humanity, Tragedy

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Civilization

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Airplane, East

  Statement on first use of atomic bomb in combat, 6 Aug. 1945

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• What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

  John Hersey

  Memories, War, Bombs

  "Hiroshima's fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2015.

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• We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

  Edward Bond

  People, Scar, Aftershock

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• Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

  George Wald

  War, Bombs, Crime

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• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

  William D. Leahy

  Fashion, Children, War

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• It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.

  Arundhati Roy

  Latin, Korea, Play

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

  Kofi Annan

  Mass Destruction, Years, Bombs

  Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.52, United Nations Publications

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• I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, War, Loss

  "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

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• America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.

  Albert Einstein

  Hard Times, Law, America

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns (p. 108), 1983.

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• We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  Light, Vision, Mind

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• I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Bombs, Today

  "The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

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• Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

  Paul Nitze

  War, Japan, Russia

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• But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Technology, Discovery, Achievement

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

  Rick Yancey

  Thinking, Cliffs, Existential

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• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Anniversary, Cities, Leader

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• When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Baseball, Dream, Team

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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