Hiroshima Quotes

72 quotes by 60 authors

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
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 will last 30… — Bertrand Russell
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to… — Jeanette Winterson
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],… — Frederick Soddy
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one… — Lenny Bruce
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic… — Koji Nakanishi
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an… — Tadatoshi Akiba
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of… — R. J. Hollingdale
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but… — Paul Tibbets
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it? — Lesley Stahl
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see… — Howard Zinn
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and… — Edward Abbey
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had… — Archibald MacLeish
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called… — Masaharu Morimoto
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time… — Kurt Vonnegut
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. — Wilfred Burchett
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems â€” and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic… — Kofi Annan
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated… — William D. Leahy

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