Wwii Quotes

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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughe

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Science Wwii Manhatttan Project Nuclear Bomb

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a ne

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Orwell Britain Nobility Royalty England Wwii Uk

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escap

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

Bertrand Russell

War Pacifist Wwii