Nagasaki Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human…
— Jacob Bronowski
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...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
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Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
— J. G. Ballard
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The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic…
— Kofi Annan
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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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Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this…
— Takashi Nagai
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People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place…
— Takashi Nagai
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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
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Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility…
— J. G. Ballard
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My activities, for which I gratefully accept this Award, are today what they have been for over thirty-five years and will be for the rest…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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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
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We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the…
— Henry L. Stimson
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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
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We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an…
— Jeremiah
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Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even…
— Martin Caidin
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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
— George Wald
Who Wrote These Nagasaki Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Nagasaki Quotes as follows: