Harry S. Truman Quotes

… the bombing ended the war, and I think that it couldn't be helped.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.