Bombing of Dresden in World War II

Famous quotes containing the words bombing, world and/or war:

    “There is a “sanctity” involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    “Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
    Hollows thereof lay rich in shade
    By voyagers old inviolate thrown
    Ere Paul Pry cruised with Pelf and Trade.
    To us old lads some thoughts come home
    Who roamed a world young lads no more shall roam.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)