Bombs Quotes

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  We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

  Michael Franti

  Peace, Hydrogen Bomb, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Michael Franti and Spearhead from Sep 01, 2013

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  Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War

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  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Police

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Gun

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• The savages don't have atom bombs.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Atoms, Savages, Literature

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Important, Atoms, Bikinis

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.118, Broadway Books

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• Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Dark, Government, Saws

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• No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Independent, Atoms

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• You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

  Barry Goldwater

  Peace, War, Forget

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• I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

  Kathy Griffin

  Stuff, Knows, Picks

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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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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• 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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• Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Iraq

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• Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Night

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• Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Heart, Hands, Leader

  "The Great Quotations" by George Seldes, (p. 349), 1966.

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• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Trying, Sparks

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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