Hiroshima And Nagasaki Quotes:

America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns (p. 108), 1983.

topic: Hard Times, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Law

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

- Albert Einstein

source: William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

topic: Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Torn, Formulas, Hiroshima

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Japan, Humanity, Coexist, Hiroshima

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Anniversary, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities

It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Latin, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Korea, Indignation

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

- Rick Yancey

topic: Thinking, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cliffs

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Beast, Atomic Bomb

I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people, men, women and children, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, weapons that should have never been used, should have never been developed in the first place, you know?

- Robert Scheer

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Children, Men, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

topic: Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Surrender, Atomic Bomb, Dropping Bombs

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.

- Isabel Allende

topic: War, Fighting, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Second World War

I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

- J. G. Ballard

source: "The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

topic: War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs, War Crimes

The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

- Kofi Annan

source: Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.52, United Nations Publications

topic: Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Mass Destruction, Years, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Dwarfs

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Positive, Artist, Genius, Positive Values, Hiroshima

Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

- William D. Leahy

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, War, Destroying, Atomic Bomb, Dropping Bombs

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

- Wilfred Burchett

topic: Cities, Doe, Looks, Hiroshima, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Death, Military, History, Manhattan Project, Two Worlds

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: War, Airplane, Sixteen, Hiroshima, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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.

- John Hersey

source: "Hiroshima's fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2015.

topic: Memories, War, Bombs, Deterrence, Hiroshima

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

- Edward Bond

topic: People, Scar, Hiroshima, Aftershock, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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

- George Wald

topic: War, Bombs, Crime, Atomic Bomb, War Crimes

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.

- William D. Leahy

topic: Fashion, Children, War, Atomic Bomb, Ethical Standards

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.'

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

topic: Country, War, Loss, Misgivings, Atomic Bomb

We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.

- Tadatoshi Akiba

topic: Light, Mind, Vision, Progeny, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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.

- Paul Nitze

topic: War, Japan, Russia, Atomic Bomb, Dropping Bombs

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

source: Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

topic: Technology, Discovery, Achievement, Hiroshima, Atom Bomb

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

- Masaharu Morimoto

source: "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

topic: Dream, Baseball, Team, Hiroshima, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Religious, War, Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Banishment

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.

- William D. Leahy

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Dark, Ethical Standards, Atomic Bomb, Dropping Bombs

Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.

- Martin Caidin

topic: War, Blow, People, Coventry, Smashing

It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.

- Karen Armstrong

source: "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: War, Ideas, Two, Gulags, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

- Subcomandante Marcos

topic: Military, War, Leaving, Economic Globalization, Polis