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“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.”

Men Reasoning Bombs Tigers Kitten Ruthlessness Appeasement Pearl Harbor Day

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.”

Feels Should War Women President Twenties Eight Intense Bombs Negotiation

Author:Robin Williams

“That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.”

Ifs Thinking War Spiritual Air Sea Danger Mines Easier Track Desert Bombs Bullets Rifles Crisps Ping Easier Life

Book:There Is a Tide

Source: There Is a Tide

“I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.”

Mind War Night Fighting Pay Enemy Streets Middle Police Train Bridges Welfare Bombs Subsidies Fiasco Proxy Sanitation Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.”

Country Mistake Europe Bombs Quarrels Great Mistakes

Book:The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

Source: The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

“Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman. The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.”

“It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.”

Source: The humanist in the bathtub

“It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.”

Ifs Men Matter Science Race Talking Scientist Like Me Bombs Publish

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.”

Meat Bombs Corn Disarmament Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.”

Language Tyranny Bombs Barricades

Author:Antonin Artaud

“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”

Moments Past Girl Next Speak Morning Minutes Missing Office Weapons Plant Eight East Sat Bombs Department Fifteen Desks Asia August Atomic Bomb Tin Clerks Personnel Hiroshima East Asia

Book:Hiroshima

Source: Hiroshima

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”

World War Memories Happened Safe Weapons Bombs Hiroshima Hiroshima And Nagasaki Deterrence

Author:John Hersey

“I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.”

Knows Feels Humans Persons Enough Problem Next Human Beings Awareness Danger Despair Capable Conviction Defined I've Learned Bombs Pessimism Inadequate Pessimist Atomic Bomb

Author:Norman Cousins

“The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.”

“The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra. And this is why we have to go to war with Saddam Hussein this minute and bomb the shish kebab out of him before he invents trig and chemistry and the whole of America flunks high school.”

Way War Whole School Funny America Minutes Civilization Humorous High School Ancient Instance Bombs Chemistry Sophisticated Saddam Hussein Algebra Kebabs

Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus

“They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.”

Knows Littles Use Young Lost Opinion Knowledge Too Much Battle Conflict Claims Difficulty Jew Israel Bombs Public Opinion Israeli Settlement Lebanon Clusters Israeli Settlements

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.”

Want War Hard Use Would Be Funny Example Humorous Clean Nuclear Russia Bombs Suspects Soviet Hard Things Nuclear War

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.”

“A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.”

Wells Whole Might Together Politics Type Boat Bombs Territory Port

Author:Albert Einstein

“Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”

Looks States Church Religious Issues Danger Affair Bombs Iran Ireland Separation Of Church And State Bursting Bloodshed Lebanon Madison Northern Ireland Carnage Framers

Book:The Conscience of a Conservative

Source: The Conscience of a Conservative

“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”

Children War Kids Dies Trouble Car Bombs Pace Slums Disintegration Tracing

Book:The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

“We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...”

Men World Made Today Fear Greater Danger Bitter Ideology Bombs Hydrogen Fear Of The Future Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Sukarno

“My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.”

Ifs Want Done Use Force President Conditions Military Extremes Bombs Scenarios Moscow

Author:George P. Shultz

“Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.”

People Country Action Hate Groups Consequence Okay Absolutes Blind Bombs Homosexual

Author:Andrew Denton

“Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.”

Ifs World Trying Figures Wine Sticks Fruit Determined Dirty California Bombs New World Flavor Old World Palate Stinky Cabernet

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.”

Needs Happens Loss Walks Compassion Fire Pieces Car Drug Accidents Flesh Bombs Tragic Friendly Rip Car Accident Overdose Accidents Happen

Author:James Belushi

“People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.”

People Should Taste Should Have Bombs Hotel

Author:Upamanyu Chatterjee

“In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.”

Book Ideas Use America Evil Sides Can Do Cases Clear Right Now Smart Opposites Bombs Rhetoric Grounded

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.”

Mistake Fire Bombs One Mistake

Author:Red Adair

“Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.”

Men Heart Bigs Dog My Heart Ears Bombs Bats Yankees Caps Hounds Hound Dogs

Author:John Fogerty

“Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?”

Fall Asks Politics President Hurt My Family Dear Bombs Falling Down

Author:John Mellencamp

“I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.”

Ifs Knows World Hands Politics This World Calm Peaceful Bombs Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.”

Politics Bombs Thank God Nukes

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.”

Politics Lord Cases Bombs Shepherds Psalms

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.”

Years Business Computer Built Financial Finance Bombs Hydrogen Mba Personal Computers Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Felix Rohatyn

“Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.”

Ifs Way War Moments Reality Happens Together Easy Understanding Sound Vision Bombs Truthful Explosions Easy Way Being Truthful War Movie Reality Of War

Author:Sebastian Junger

“I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.”

World Feels Actors Sex Felt Treats Accepted Bombs

Author:Sylvia Kristel

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