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Quotes About Bombs

However, through the 1950s and early 1960s the nuclear mission was paramount and US carriers had large numbers of bombs on board, typically about 200.
~ Norman Friedman
The newspaper warns us about terrorist anthrax bombs and virulent new strains of meningitis, and the only comfort newspapers can offer is a coupon for twenty cents off on underarm deodorant.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.
~ Greg Mortenson
Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.
~ Greta Van Susteren
They had failed to understand that there was no such thing as private life in wartime Germany. No amount of reticence could change the fact that every individual German belonged to the generality of Germans and must share in the general destiny of Germany, even as more and more bombs were falling on the just and unjust alike.
~ Hans Fallada
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
Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
~ Andrew Denton
I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
~ Paul Krassner
Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the Middle East with useless bombs or rounding up the wrong suspects and locking them up without charge.
~ Peter Hitchens
Paradoks yani bombalar tertemiz nesnelerdir. Sahip olduklar? tek kirletici özellik patlamad?klar? zaman çevreye saçt?klar? bir güvenlik ve denetleme sistemidir.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
~ Ringo Starr
Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in the process of decay. The bigger the bombs, the quicker it will be done. The world is visually too hideous for one to make the attempt to preserve it. Let it go.
~ Paul Bowles
In peacetime it was poverty, during the war it was the front that kept pushing people before it like a long row of dominos, people slept in other people's beds, used other people's cooking utensils, ate the stores of food that other people had been forced to leave behind. It's just that the rooms became more crowded the more the bombs fell.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.
~ Margaret Cho
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
~ Octave Mirbeau
it is in the rightness of our cause, and not the fear of our bombs, that our prospects of victory lie.
~ Peter Singer
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
~ Philip Roth
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!
~ Craig Bruce
Over in her student project garden, the usually sweet Poison Ivy was yelling at the reptile warriors. "Do. NOT. Trample. My. PLANTS!!!" she warned. When they didn't listen, Poison Ivy reached into her bag for the flower bombs she had created in Mr. Fox's class. She lobbed the weapons at them and watched with glee as they exploded, creating a net of thorny rose vines that captured several enemies at once.
~ Unknown
even if staging a culture show was really an acknowledgement of one's cultural inferiority. The truly powerful rarely needed to put on a show, since their culture was always everywhere. Americans knew their culture was ubiquitous, whether burgers or bombs.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.
~ Isaac Yeffet
Within the arsenal there were some five hundred bombs with an explosive power of twenty-five megatons. Each of these warheads had more firepower than all the bombs and shells exploded in all the wars of human history.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
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
We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).
~ Joe Sestak