Bomb Quotes: Explosive Words of Wisdom

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

Benito Mussolini, Politician

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

A. Whitney Brown, Comedian

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

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"The savages don't have atom bombs"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"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

"I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"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

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

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it"

Jay London, Comedian

"Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

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

Herbert Hoover, President

"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb"

Rene Magritte, Artist

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

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"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

"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets"

Edward Teller, 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

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

Craig Bruce

"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

"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb"

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"

Harry S. Truman, President

"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

"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

"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

"I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"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

"World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us"

Graham Chapman, Comedian

"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

"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

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

George Wald, Scientist

"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb"

Benny Hill, Comedian

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