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We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.
— Omar N. Bradley
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Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
— William D. Leahy
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
— John Boyd Orr
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
— John F. Kennedy
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.
— Robin S. Sharma
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.
— Paul Tibbets
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .
. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some.
— Robert McNamara
It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.
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.
People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.
— Leslie Groves
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite or they will perish.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Be selective in your battles, don't make every problem a war.
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.
— Gerald Durrell
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.
— Bruce Lee
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
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
— Eisaku Sato
Be selective in your battles, dont make every problem a war.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
— Stuart Chase
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
— Pyotr Kapitsa
Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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.
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
— Charlie Chaplin
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
The atom bomb was no "great decision.
" It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.
— Harry S. Truman
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
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
— Ernest Lawrence
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
— Sun Tzu
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.
— Stanley Kubrick
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.
— H. G. Wells
The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.
— Julian Assange
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
— Charles Dickens
In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.
— William S. Burroughs
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.
If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
— J. D. Salinger
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific] war and the use of the atomic bomb, the world would have been the gainer.
— Joseph Grew
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
— Ernest Rutherford
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