Armament Quotes - Page 3

• The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

  Edward Dunlop

  War, Moral, Obvious

  "Twenty-five Years: 1892-1916". Book by Edward Grey, Vol. 1, pp. 91-92, 1925.

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• I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, People

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• From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate that area [eastern part of Aleppo] and the civilians from those terrorists, and at the same time to try to find a solution to evacuate that area from those terrorists if they accept, let's say, what you call it reconciliation option, in which they either give up their armaments for amnesty, or they leave that area.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Giving Up, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• 80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think just as armament had a major impact of a negative kind in the world, education is something which has a major impact of a positive kind in the world. And I think the American population, with its humanity and with its concern about the future of the world, has a real reason to think about what it can do to help the world in expanding education.

  Amartya Sen

  Real, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

  Norman Mailer

  Unions, Soviet Union, Soviet

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.

  Christa Wolf

  Running, War, Mean

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• For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Race, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

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• Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Regret, War, Effort

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.9, Best Books on

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• In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

  Arthur Henderson

  Country, War, Preparation

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• Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Loss, Race

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• I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Peaceful, Energy, Nuclear

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Men, Uniforms, Assault

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• A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Race, Understanding, Honest

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria's grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Running, Queens, War

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Example, Use, Rubber

  "President al-Assad's interview given to Associated Press". Interview, sana.sy. September 22, 2016.

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• The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

  Donald Trump

  World, Weapons, Nuclear

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their food and water. What I mean is cutting off their life support system.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Cutting, Support Systems

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Giving Up, Party, Years

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Let's presume that a country or army has this weapon ; this kind of armaments cannot be used by infantry for example or by anyone. This kind of armament should be used by specialized units, so it cannot be in the hand of anyone.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Army, Hands

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

  Bashar al-Assad

  May, Sometimes, Primitive

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, World, Arms

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Character

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