From Chernobyl Quotes

#1. I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father

Svetlana Alexievich

#2. People ask me: "Why don't you take photos in color? In color!" But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there.

Svetlana Alexievich

#3. The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

Bill Gates

#4. Chernobyl haunts us with the reminder that all of man's ambitions are ephemeral. Our grandest designs and sturdiest monuments,

Josh Gates

#5. Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.

Svetlana Alexievich

#6. We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

Svetlana Alexievich

#7. I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll "light" the whole earth with them.

Svetlana Alexievich

#8. After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

Wladimir Klitschko

#9. The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer's vocabulary - Fermi was only then inventing that specialty - but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.

Richard Rhodes

#10. Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.

Svetlana Alexievich

#11. The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant ... has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#12. Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!' Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. 'Don't worry!' she says. 'They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.

Svetlana Alexievich

#13. Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind.

Svetlana Alexievich

#14. To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

Yakov Smirnoff

#15. The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.

Svetlana Alexievich

#16. Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

Conan O'Brien

#17. At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that this was a magical factory that made "energy out of nothing," where people in white robes sat and pushed buttons. Chernobyl blew up when we weren't prepared.

Svetlana Alexievich

#18. Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Abdus Salam

#19. Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Svetlana Alexievich

#20. (More radioactive material fell on Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a result of Chernobyl than from Three Mile Island.)

William Tucker

#21. I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

Aleksandra Mir

#22. Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros.

Jimmy Carr

#23. At first we were all turned into animals. The very word "Chernobyl" is like a signal. Everyone turns their head to look at you. He's from there! That

Svetlana Alexievich

#24. With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'

George Smoot

#25. If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them.

Andriy Shevchenko

#26. The war - that's the only thing I can talk about. Why did we come here? To Chernobyl? Because no one's going to chase us out of here. No one will kick us off this land. It's not anyone's land now.

Svetlana Alexievich

#27. That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.

Joe Hill

#28. She'd never set a fantasy in a ski lodge, but she was thinking about it now. She couldn't help it. The man was throwing off pheromones like he was a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Sitting so close to ground zero, the fallout was lethal.

Rachel Gibson

#29. So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

Bill Gates

#30. In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke ... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

Sam Kinison

#31. Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

Steven Magee

#32. Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history?

Anders Breivik

#33. Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

Jimmy Carr

#34. The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.

Abdus Salam

#35. Is there anything more frightening than people?

Svetlana Alexievich

#36. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. "Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl," Mom liked to say. "Or I might wonder." Dad

Harlan Coben

#37. This is what they mean by 'ghost town', she thought. It truly feels like a place frozen in time

Jeremy Robinson

#38. Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally ... Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out ... Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

Ralph Nader

#39. We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

Donella Meadows

#40. Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.

Michio Kaku

#41. I'm a product of my time. I'm not a criminal.

Svetlana Alexievich

#42. In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

Michio Kaku

#43. There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#44. Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

Oren Peli

#45. The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Niki De St. Phalle