“ Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind. ”
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
~ Kenzaburō Ōe
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.
