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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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Dramatic, Theological, Time Bomb

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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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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• Sundays kill more people than bombs.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sunday, People

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Country, Order, Numbers

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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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• 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, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Discovery

  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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• 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.

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Pleasure, Throwing, Enthusiastic

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.105, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Native American, People, Choices

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Bravery, Nuclear, Want

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• World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Hydrogen Bomb, Optimism

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• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

  Fbi Agents, People, Surfing

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• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Men, Dragons

  "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56". Book edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.

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• We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

  Theodore Bikel

  Hate, Gun, Tasks

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• A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

  William Blum

  Air, Force, Terrorist

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.123, Zed Books

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• We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

  Simon Le Bon

  Band, Want

  Interview with John Taylor, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 1, 2012.

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• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Thinking, Agreement

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• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  Lanford Wilson

  Atoms, Firsts, Obsession

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• We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

  Peter Hain

  Party, Fighting, Government

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• When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Growing Up, War, Fighting

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

  Val Guest

  Fire, Russia, America

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