Nuclear Bomb Quotes - Page 4

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

  Edward Abbey

  Nuclear, Bombs, Physicist

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

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• It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Kitchen, Nuclear

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• Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Nuclear, Bombs

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Christian, Military, War

  "West must act to end jihad: Imam" by Frank Walker, www.smh.com.au. March 21, 2004.

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• Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eight, Years, House

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• Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Believe, People

  "History and the Decline of Human Violence". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. October 4, 2011.

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• What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Country, Ambition

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• My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.

  Evel Knievel

  Country, Nuclear, Bombs

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• With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with nuclear bombs. It's such an irony! You're saying that the world is a global village, but then you want to spend crores of rupees on building nuclear weapons.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Hands, Borders

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Humorous, Race

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• There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

  Farah Diba

  Iran, People, Nuclear

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

  Spike Lee

  Powerful, Moving, Media

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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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• Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

  Bernard Lown

  Reality, Nuclear, Bombs

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• I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.

  Harold Urey

  Powerful, Science, Discovery

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• To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.

  Herbert York

  Science, Moon, Russia

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nuclear, Bombs, Warning

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Writing, Bombs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

  Sophal Ear

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.

  Ramsey Clark

  Europe, Numbers, Nuclear

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• We don't talk about that at all as a country. I think that most people assume that there's nothing they could do if a nuclear bomb went off in their city. And that's just not true. Most people would survive most terrorist nuclear attacks because the bombs would likely be much smaller than those we were dealing with in the Cold War.

  Amanda Ripley

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• No. That's Clary; shes's my best friend." Simon pocketed his phone. "And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Phones, My Best Friend, Nuclear

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1365, Simon and Schuster

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• Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

  Arundhati Roy

  Opposites, Nuclear, Bombs

  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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• 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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