"The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is……" — Octave Mirbeau
"The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes."
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17 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau has 17 quotes on this site.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone,…
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Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast…
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of…
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s…
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism,…
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them…
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person…
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More Bomb Quotes
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
— William Blum
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We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
— Simon Le Bon
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
— Elayne Boosler
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
— Abdallah II
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the…
— Barbara Bush
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
— Rosanne Cash
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