"Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence."

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Wilfred Burchett

#Cities Quotes #Doe Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.”
“What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.”
“Even the best fall down sometimes.”

Source : Song: Collide, Album: Stop All The World Now, 2003
“Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.”
“If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.”
“[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.”
“There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.”
“I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. April 20, 2010.

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