Atom bomb Quote by Lanford Wilson Download Open image “I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.” — Lanford Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atom bomb Atoms Bombs Firsts Happened Not sure Obsessed
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have… — Dwight Schultz 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
“Oppenheimer’s story also reminds us that our identity as a people remains intimately connected with the culture of things nuclear. “We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945,” E. L. Doctorow has observed. “It was first our weaponry and then our diplomacy, and now it’s our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not,… — Kai Bird Copy Share
We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler,… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight. And,… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities… The most fearful event… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant,… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory,… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“As the tail on our back disappeared as we no longer had any use for it, nuclear weapons will also disappear once we realize, we no longer have any need for them. But no matter how much we daydream, it will never happen as some sort of grand geopolitical gesture of international collaboration - somebody has to take the first… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
“If we do not stop these mar-makers not,...it will soon be too late. We are the only nation that can halt this crusade. It might be too late in America, but it isn't too late here. Without British support the whole scheme would collapse. For that reason the future of all nations depends upon the policy which is decided in… — James Aldridge Copy Share
“Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn’t mean that you use your mind. Just as dogs love… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted. “Everything was… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That… — Richard Wright Copy Share
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Fear kills, want to kill. Fear is destructive. Love is creative energy. When you love you would like to create - you may like to sing a song, paint, write poetry, but you would not take a bayonet or an atom bomb and go rushing off madly to kill people who are absolutely unknown to you, who have done nothing,… — Rajneesh Copy Share
If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image