John Hersey Quotes About Hiroshima

• Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

  John Hersey

  Writing, Opportunity, Giving

• Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

  John Hersey

  Firsts, Hiroshima, Teach

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

• The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

  John Hersey

  Spiritual, War, Evil

  John Hersey (2015). “Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]”, p.31, Pickle Partners Publishing

• 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, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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

• There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

  John Hersey

  Book, Age, Tin

  Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)

• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

• Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

  John Hersey

  Life Is Short, Firsts, Patient

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”, Knopf

• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  John Hersey

  Children, Fall, Vision

  John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

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