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 (19241987)
“I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what Id call imperial provincialism, which afflicts Americas whole cultureaware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isnt part of the local atmosphere.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)