#bomb

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#nuclear #psychosis #tv #imagination

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#anxiety #attitude #bombs #chance #contemporary

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#culture #guns #war #life

I've said it once and i'll say it again.... "It's fiction!.... In fiction it doesn't have to be true but it does have to make sense. Unlike life, that doesn't have to make sense but is true. ↗

— Ellie Williams

#abp #ellie-williams #teamelbombz #life

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#india #mumbai #love

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#compassion #guns #love #non-violence #peace

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#america #bombs #communism #communists #vietnam

Anyone who bombs is my friend. ↗

— Todd Barry

#bombs #friend #my friend #who

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. ↗