Bomb Quotes: Explosive Words of Wisdom

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait"

"You can't bomb a people just in case"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war"

Barney Ross, Athlete

"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"The savages don't have atom bombs"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Celebrity hits like a bomb"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything"

Cindy Sheehan, Activist

"The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

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

Octave Mirbeau, Writer

"In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one"

George Wald, Scientist

"We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime"

George Wald, Scientist

"Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!"

Craig Bruce

"Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"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"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul"

Herbert Hoover, President

"The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

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