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)

    “Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn’t know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn’t a understood it.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)