Bombs Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bombs Fun Nuclear Nuclear bomb War
“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. — George Wald Copy Share Image
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 laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the surly hatred of progress and development, the churlish resistance to all popular improvements? Very well, a fair question, but it’s been asked and answered a thousand times already; enough books to drive a man stark naked… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Everybody I've ever met was destroyed by a member of the opposite sex early on and that damage you took into every relationship after that, everybody. Every woman in here got intimidated by a guy, pushed around too much, now you're new boyfriend tickles you a little too hard, boom restraining order. Every guy here had a woman sleep with… — Christopher Titus Copy Share
I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach… — Jim Furyk Copy Share Image
![“The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent a thousand planes and, yes, we took out the factory sometimes, but we also took out the city. It reached the point where we wanted more efficient ways to destroy a…” quote by George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/09e/george-friedman-7436_awake_the-british-bombed-german-cities-during_2073212.jpg)
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