"The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke"
- Octave Mirbeau
About this Quote
This quote by Octave Mirbeau speaks to the risks of battle and making use of bombs. He recommends that the best risk of bombs is not the physical damage they cause, however the psychological devastation they provoke. He suggests that the use of bombs can result in a kind of cumulative stupidity, where people end up being so concentrated on the devastation and also violence that they forget to think logically as well as practically. This sort of reasoning can bring about further physical violence as well as devastation, developing a cycle of physical violence and also devastation that can be challenging to break. By doing this, Mirbeau suggests that making use of bombs can lead to a type of mental surge that can be just as harmful as the physical explosion of the bombs themselves.
This quote is written / told by Octave Mirbeau between February 16, 1848 and February 16, 1917. He/she was a famous Writer from France.
The author also have 2 other quotes.
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
