America Quote by Arundhati Roy

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

— Edward Bond

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and…

— Pope John Paul II

Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle…

— Antonio Guterres

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

— Saint Augustine

“History's long rhythm of challenges and response, of solutions that breed new crises, is not to be interrupted. But the Cold War left one…

— Martin Walker

“We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

“We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that…

— Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the…

— Johann Hari

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion.…

— Meg Rosoff

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton