Seven decades after it was struck by an atom bomb, Hiroshima is a city of peace and hope. — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. — Edward Bond 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
“You’re so the fucking bomb, you’d level Hiroshima again if you visited.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“So, let us be alert--alert in a twofold sense. Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater… — Wilfred Burchett 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
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and… — Wilfred Burchett 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
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 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
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our… — William D. Leahy 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
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“When they bombed Hiroshima, the explosion formed a mini-supernova, so every living animal, human or plant that received direct contact with the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The Health and Human Services emergency command post, just a block from the National Mall in Room 313-10 in its headquarters basement,… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal". — Dave Barry 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
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
