Disarmament Quotes
Disarmament Quote of the day
I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development
Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.
Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?
Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.
Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.
Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
