Bombing Quotes - Page 2

• The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

  Stuart Symington

  Believe, Gun, Experts

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• Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

  Ernst Zundel

  Risk, Groups, Victim

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• It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Communication, Land

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Age, Doe, Stones

  "WAR ON TERROR: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on why peace-lovers must welcome this war". Christopher Hitchens, The Mirror, November 15, 2001.

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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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• My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

  John Lasseter

  Father, Burning, Four

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• During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

  Simon Sinek

  War, Loss, Pilots

  "Look Forward: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, Order, Campaigns

  December 09, 1970 Phone call with Gen. Alexander Haig, quoted in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 123,

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• In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them did not weaken the morale of the populace.

  Albert Speer

  War, Impact, Cities

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.

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• After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Reality, United States, World

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• In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  War, Mean, Land

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• In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Brother, Law, Organization

  "Will World Economic Forum Actually Deal With Tough Issues?". "Diplomatic License" with Richard Roth, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2002.

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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

  George Wald

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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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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• The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Doe, Target

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.272, Pantheon

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• [ Iraq and Afghanistan] don't get better, they only get worse. Bombing them has only enabled them to grow and multiply.

  Jill Stein

  Iraq, Get Better, Afghanistan

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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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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• The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Hydrogen Bomb, Soul

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1996.

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• Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Color, Atrocities Committed, Tyrants

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• What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

  Michael Z. Williamson

  Cities, Politics, Truck

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• If you're looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here's a clue: Look for the dead guy.

  Norm MacDonald

  Suicide, Guy, Looks

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• I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  M.I.A.

  War, Voice, Support

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• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  J. G. Ballard

  People, Office, Shells

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