Quotes with bombs

  • The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
  • Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
  • 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.''

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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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  • Alice Walker The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Andrew Denton 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.
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  • Barney Ross 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
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, My bombs are my books.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Jacob Bronowski 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.''
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Philip Roth My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
    Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Barack Obama Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • A. Whitney Brown Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Carlos Santana Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
    Associated Press interview September 1, 2004
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • George Orwell The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Benny Hill The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
    Benny Hill
    English comedian, actor and singer (1924 - 1992)
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  • Barry Commoner The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Walter Benjamin We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bruce Sterling We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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