We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Seven decades after it was struck by an atom bomb, Hiroshima is a city of peace and hope. — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. — George Wald Copy Share Image
No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes. — John Ziff Copy Share Image
Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.” — Vijay Kedia Copy Share Image
“You’re so the fucking bomb, you’d level Hiroshima again if you visited.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
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
... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press,… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities… — Eduardo Galeano 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
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
“Hiroshima. So I’ve got to put something about it in my book. From the official Air Force standpoint, it’ll all be new.”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just… — Max von Sydow 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
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale 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
“Not every environment accepts the dream shaping progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception… — Stewart Udall 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
“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
“In Nevada, at Frenchman’s Flat, a bright flash and ugly mushroom cloud had signified a gigantic change in the tactical battlefield—a change… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“As Japan recovered from the post-war depression, okonomiyaki became the cornerstone of Hiroshima's nascent restaurant culture. And with new variables- noodles, protein,… — Matt Goulding Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Contrary to Stimson’s highly influential but totally misleading account in Harper’s in February 1947, “The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb”—written for… — Daniel Ellsberg 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
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it? — Lesley Stahl Copy Share Image
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ” — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
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