Bombs Quotes - Page 4

• Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Hydrogen Bomb, Atomic Bomb, Fatigue

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• If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Science, Should Have

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• I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  New York, Stupid, Thinking

  "Benjamin Netanyahu on Alleged Rift With President Obama, Mideast Peace Process". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2010.

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• It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Science, Technology

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.219, Ultramarine Publishing

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

  Sandra Oh

  Hero, People, Giving

  "Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. March 23, 2005.

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• What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.

  J. William Fulbright

  Men, Air, Moles

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

  Paul Nitze

  War, Japan, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life Changing, Men, Evil

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• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Bruce Sterling

  Suicide, Class, People

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

  Rene Magritte

  Atoms, Mediocrity, Atom Bomb

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• Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Smart, Mass Destruction

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• When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Sweet, History, Way

  Quoted in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: usaec Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board (1954)

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• The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Change, Country, Military

  Commencement address, 1946.

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• Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

  Christopher Dodd

  Military, Iraq, Safety

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• Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

  Greta Van Susteren

  People, Truck, Free Society

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• Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

  Andrew Motion

  Light, Flames, Tonight

  Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.

  James Stockdale

  Air, Railroads, Littles

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• We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

  Jock Sturges

  Birthday, Artist, Age

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

  Edward Teller

  Regret, Real, Hydrogen Bomb

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• Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

  Tom Udall

  Government, Uranium Mining, Trying

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

  George Wald

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Crime

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• I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

  Terry Gilliam

  Political, Cartoon, Makers

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• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Scare, United States

  Interview by Anne Louise Strong, Aug. 1946

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• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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