"The greatest danger of bombs is in the……" — Octave Mirbeau

"The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke."

— Octave Mirbeau

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17 Quotes by Octave Mirbeau

Octave Mirbeau has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone,…
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast…
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of…
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s…
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism,…
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them…
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person…

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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I don't regret setting bombs. — Bill Ayers
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. — Theodore Bikel
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force. — William Blum
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops. — Simon Le Bon
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. — Spiro T. Agnew
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb. — Elayne Boosler
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. — Abdallah II
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent… — Harry Browne
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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