Best Dropping Bombs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?”

People Knows Doe Ends Helping Might Common Terrorism Common Sense Bombs Dropping Dropping Bombs

Book:Terrorism and War

Source: Terrorism and War

“I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.”

Force Air Europe Bombs Enthusiastic Dropping Air Force Dropping Bombs

Author:Howard Zinn

“We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we're seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.”

People Should Humans Mean Decision Seeing Doors Happenings Method Threat Opening Traditional Chains Bombs Warfare Dropping Missiles Drones Launching Dropping Bombs

Author:Edward Snowden

“I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.”

Ready Surrender Awful Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Hiroshima And Nagasaki Dropping Bombs

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“At the time, we were mad at Moammar Gadhafi, which resulted in us bombing all over Libya and killing a bunch of people, but not him. Then Ronald Reagan gets up and says we're not trying to kill him, we're just dropping bombs. You can kill all the Libyans you want, but legally you can't try to kill the leader.”

People Want Trying Leader Mad Killing Bunch Get Up Bombs Dropping Bombing Libya Dropping Bombs

Author:Dave Barry

“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.”

Inspiration Motivational Attitude Positive Attitude Bombs Cynicism Black History Disillusionment Positive Thinking Attitude Disillusion Short Positive Attitude Dropping Bombs

Book:Civilisation

Source: Civilisation

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.”

“Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.”

World Problem This World Bombs Throwing Pointing Dropping Dropping Bombs

Author:Molly Ivins

“The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."”

Wells Children Said Real Kids Next Force Felt Teacher Air Effects Students Newspapers Hey Bombs Village Pilots Dropping Eric Air Force Icy Vietnamese Oh Well Music Teacher Dropping Bombs

Author:Jello Biafra

“Remember, the enemy comes to kill still and destroy. But now they're going to inspect themselves? Oh, what could go wrong with that? Yes, don't call us. We'll call you, they say. And that's really good because [Barack] Obama is standing by with his mighty phone and his mighty pen in case they stretch the truth a little. And they start dropping bombs.”

Littles Stills Remember Enemy Cases Standing Phones Barack Bombs Pens Dropping Dropping Bombs

Author:Sarah Palin

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

Humans War Peace Gun Symbols Bombs Anti War Antiwar Rockets Peace War Warships Dropping Bombs

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“There's a lotta countries that do very well at dropping bombs. There are other things that Canada actually does better than most other countries. And one of them is training people on the ground.”

People Wells Doe Country Training Bombs Canada Other Countries Dropping Dropping Bombs

Author:Justin Trudeau

“It has to be an actress like Marion Cotillard [in Allied] because there are so many levels to it. It's set in the Second World War, when lots of people were doing things that, outside of a war, you wouldn't do, like killing and dropping bombs. She's doing things that one wouldn't approve of, but it's war.”

People World War Levels Killing Actresses War Of The Worlds Bombs Dropping Second World War Dropping Bombs

Author:Steven Knight

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.”

War Crime Bombs Dropping Bombing Atomic Bomb Hiroshima War Crimes Hiroshima And Nagasaki Atomic War Dropping Bombs

Author:George Wald

“For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.”

Real Action Kitchen Bombs Zero Action Movie Exploding Ground Zero Dropping Bombs

Author:Michelle Williams

“Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.”

People Inspirational Real Divine Enlightenment Behave Bombs Dropping Dropping Bombs

Author:Carlos Santana

“I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'”

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”

“The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”

“Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children”

Children War Destroying Bombing Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Atom Bomb Hiroshima And Nagasaki Atomic War Atomic Weapons Dropping Bombs

Author:William D. Leahy

“We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.”

People Children War Talking Crime Innocent Bombs Dropping Immorality Drones War Crimes Dropping Bombs

Author:Cornel West

“Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.”

States Government Can Do Realizing Dark United United States Saws Bombs State Government Atomic Bomb United States Government Dropping Bombs

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dropping Bombs Quotes

Related topics

Dropping Bombs Quotes