32 Quotes About Hiroshima

Not every environment accepts the dream shaping progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about, be sure it can progress very well where you are; Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile grounds for a farmer’s dream seeds. Go and relocate!

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Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendour of the Mighty One...I am become Death,The shatterer of worlds.[Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]

One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never lived in a hospital ward so nearly free of bacteria as this one that was sterilized by fire.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

So, let us be alert--alert in a twofold sense.Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Around one hundred thousand people died in Hiroshima. Why did we think so little of their freedom? What have we done for the hibakusha since?