Bombing of Dresden in World War II

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

    The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

    In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
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    Your length in clay’s now competent,
    A long war disturbed your mind;
    John Webster (c. 1580–1638)