Bombing Quote by Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly provide the…

— Friedrich Kellner

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively…

— George Orwell

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the…

— Clive James

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

— Kris Kristofferson

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the…

— Winston Churchill

“Whether rightly or wrongly, we are the only country in the world that believes it won a war by bombing—specifically by bombing cities with…

— Daniel Ellsberg

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are…

— Julius Streicher

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

— Assar Lindbeck

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to…

— Martin Van Creveld

Bombing is a very dangerous option because it's so convenient and because at home it's politically acceptable because our boys aren't dying on the…

— Pierre Sprey

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even…

— Mahatma Gandhi