Bombs Quotes - Page 5

• The savages don't have atom bombs.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Atoms, Savages, Literature

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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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• 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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• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Men, Numbers

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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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• I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Military, President

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, St. Martin's Press

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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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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

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• It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

  Elliott Smith

  Balls, Band, Ridiculous

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• We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Perseverance, Not Giving Up, Persistence

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Important, Atoms, Bikinis

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• Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, War, Gun

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fall, Airplane, Sky

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

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• I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

  Norman Cousins

  Despair, Next, Problem

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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