The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: war weapons failure bombs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: war bombs lies earth sun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing, I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: war law children bombs killing care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace. —Linda Hogan More about this quote Tags: peace weapons children bombs death shock despair Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email