Hiroshima Quotes

72 quotes by 60 authors

We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our… — Tadatoshi Akiba
I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow. — Naz?m Hikmet
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were… — Robert Jay Lifton
Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: â€œBut in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean… — Sarah Kay
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me. — Wilfred Burchett
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were… — Wilfred Burchett
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. — Wilfred Burchett
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat… — Wilfred Burchett
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives… — Wilfred Burchett
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During… — Subcomandante Marcos
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on… — Noam Chomsky
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been… — Harry S. Truman
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement… — Joseph Rotblat
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to… — Kenzaburo Oe
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for… — Edward Kennedy
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn… — Martin Van Creveld
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,… — Pope John Paul II
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become… — Eduardo Galeano
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom… — Mahatma Gandhi
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima,… — John Hersey

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