Nuclear Bomb Quotes - Page 2

• I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

  Leonard Baskin

  Attitude, Thinking, Roots

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• I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.

  Dave Chappelle

  Country, Swear To God, Korea

  "After Dave Chappelle Hates On Hartford, Who's To Blame?". www.npr.org. September 6, 2013.

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• The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

  Kim Jong-un

  Forever, Enemy, Nuclear

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.

  Enrico Fermi

  Years, Important, Elements

  Enrico Fermi (1971). “Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938”

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• The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Mass Destruction, Funeral, Black

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

  George F. Kennan

  Defense, Nuclear, Purpose

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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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• The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, America, Broken

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• The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Children, Israel, Nuclear

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• Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

  Kim Jong-un

  Nuclear, Bombs, Want

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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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• The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!

  Michael O'Leary

  Class, Environmental, Nuclear

  "Michael O'Leary's 33 daftest quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Real, Love Is, Enemy

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• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Powell

  Zero, Military, Heart

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• While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, May

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mistake, Weapons, Nuclear

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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, Bombs

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• She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.

  Rick Riordan

  Airplane, Sky, Nuclear

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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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• Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

  James Rollins

  Gun, Nuclear, Bombs

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• What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

  Marisha Pessl

  Men, Nuclear, Bombs

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Way, Civil Rights, Causes

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.

  Jonathan Schell

  Dream, Taken, Goal

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• A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

  Johnny Carson

  Fun, Islands, Turkeys

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