Quotes For Our Time.

1."You can only retain freedoms if you act to preserve them".
Karl Ticamo.

2".The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Cornelius Tacitus(55- 117AD)

3."It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"
Krishnamurti.

4." If you have selfish,ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish ignorant leaders".
George Carlin.

5."I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies".
Thomas Jefferson.

6."My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch".
Jack Nicholson.

7." Men marry women with the hope that they will never change.Women marry men with the hope that they will change.Invariably they are both disappointed"
Albert Einstein.

8."As you get older three things happen.The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two".
Norman Wisdom.

9." War is organized murder and nothing else"
Harry Patch- last surviving soldier of World War One.

10."It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"
Voltaire.

11."There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people".
Howard Zimm.

12."Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a War Crime".
George Wald.


13."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 because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with convential 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".
Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, from' I Was There'. page 441.

14."The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children  revolts my soul"
Herbert Hoover.

15. " Of thousands of others ,nearer the centre of the explosion there was no trace.They vanished.The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes-except that there were no ashes"
William Burchett.

16." In some way more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from collective memory of humankind.Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority round the World can only vaguely imagine such horror....those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.The probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger that nuclear war are increasing."
Mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba.