I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about… — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal". — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has not so far provoked the kind of anguished… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a… — Linda Hoaglund Copy Share Image
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!'… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
“We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who… — Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Copy Share Image
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay.… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“If you take the final betrayal out of it,’ he said, ‘he was a fine agent – one of the best.’ I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the… — Paul Tibbets Copy Share Image
When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted.… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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