{"quotes":[{"text":"The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife.And all this through a lens of oleaginous Belfast rain.","author":"Adrian McKinty","tags":["beauty","bombs","helicopters","revolution","riot"],"id":17536,"author_id":"Adrian+McKinty"},{"text":"All bombing is terrorism.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bloodshed","bombing","bombs","fear","genocide","murder","peace","peace-making","peaceful","peacemakers","soldiers","terror","terrorism","war","world-peace"],"id":23721,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["bombs","guns","knowledge","life-issues","meaning-of-life","second-glance","wealth-accumulation","world"],"id":42747,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why.","author":"Joe Reyes","tags":["bombs","dystopian","dystopian-fiction","fight","obliteration","shot","tradgedy","war","warfare"],"id":42802,"author_id":"Joe+Reyes"},{"text":"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.","author":"Mother Teresa","tags":["bombs","compassion","guns","love","non-violence","peace","violence"],"id":45808,"author_id":"Mother+Teresa"},{"text":"You have terminated me,” one of them said in a strange, flat voice. “But Iam one of many.”“Robots!” Iggy breathed, taking Total from Angel.“One of many, one of many, one of many,” the robot Eraser was saying. NowNudge saw the red light in its eyes, saw how they were fading and winking out.“Good!” spat the Gasman, kicking it hard. “Because we like to blow stuff up,blow stuff up, blow stuff up!","author":"James Patterson","tags":["blow-up","bombs","fight","flying","funny","lol","repeating","robot"],"id":48880,"author_id":"James+Patterson"},{"text":"Who's they?' He wanted to know. 'Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?'Every one of them,' Yossarian told him.'Every one of whom?'Every one of whom do you think?'I haven't any idea.'Then how do you know they aren't?'Because...' Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. \tClevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.","author":"Joseph Heller","tags":["bombs","murder","paranoia"],"id":62048,"author_id":"Joseph+Heller"},{"text":"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["bombs","death","depression","fun","greed","suicide"],"id":92305,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["atomic","bombs","books","cave","classism","forgotten","fun","hate","history","history-repeating-itself","ignorance","mistakes","poor","rich","starving","uncaring","war"],"id":93822,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Have you noticed,' said John, 'how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["bombs","nuclear","war","weapons-of-mass-destruction","wmd"],"id":118819,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}