Daisaku Ikeda Quotes About Nuclear Weapons

Quotes about: Nuclear Weapons

• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Japan, Humanity

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Fall, People

• So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Military, Long, Temptation

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Nuclear, Development, Weapons

• The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Struggle, Evil, Challenges

• If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

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