Disarmament Quotes - Page 4

• Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

  Michael Douglas

  Political, Arms, Bullets

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• Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.

  David Lange

  Country, Mass Destruction, Issues

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Time, Adults, World

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• Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Race, Effort, Nuclear Missiles

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• As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

  Bernard Lown

  Order, Long, Nuclear

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• 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.

  Philip Berrigan

  Nuclear Disarmament, Use, Earth

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• Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.

  Alva Myrdal

  War, People, Preparation

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• Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Mean, Simple, Effort

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

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• I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

  Michael Douglas

  Nuclear Disarmament, Differences, Leader

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• Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

  Alan Cranston

  Running, Nuclear Disarmament, Defense

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

  David Cortright

  Bars, Moral, Strategy

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• We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster an even stronger network for nuclear abolition and peace.

  Iccho Itoh

  Hands, People, Together

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• The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  Barack Obama during debate with Republican former Ambassador Alan Keyes, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• 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?

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  Dream, Moon, Age

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• There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Real, Materials

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.483, Best Books on

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• I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Class, Goal, Wealth

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• Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

  Richard Lamm

  Peace, War, Heart

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nukes

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Doe, Maintenance, Guarantees

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• 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.

  Kofi Annan

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Political

  Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.53, United Nations Publications

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• The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Notion

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