Nuclear Quotes - Page 29

• Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Arms, Humans

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

  Edward Abbey

  Bombs, Physicist, Humankind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, America, Slavery

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

  Arundhati Roy

  Opposites, Bombs, Literature

  Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. September 18, 2002.

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• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Fate, Thinking

  Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate, October 13, 1960.

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• If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.

  Ali Larijani

  Iran, Resumes, Council

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• I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb. Any such weapon is a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons. This is in line with our definition of - and opposition to - terrorism.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Christian, Islamic, Mean

  TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 8, 1981.

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• What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Oil, Way

  "Rush: 'I’m Just Noting the Timing Here'" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

  Thom Yorke

  Boys, Lobster, Shells

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• Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Hurt, Moving

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• There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001 He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, Wmd, Long

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• Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

  Studs Terkel

  Risk, Energy, Today

  Studs Terkel (2011). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.304, The New Press

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• They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

  Herman Cain

  Military, Stupid, Trying

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• In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

  Clive James

  Mistake, Golf, Men

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.503, Pan Macmillan

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• Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Art, Philosophy, War

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• Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and living next to other people can "contaminate" two others, and these two, four others, etc. Since lay Christians number not only tens of thousands like the clergy but hundreds of millions, they can truly play a decisive role in spreading the beneficial light of the gospel in the world.

  Raniero Cantalamessa

  Christian, Spiritual, Play

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• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

  Mark Steyn

  Strong, War, Party

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• We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

  Mark Steyn

  Meaningful, Japan, Political

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• The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hammers, Mosquitoes

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• I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would, I think, be intolerable because you have to build an immense number of nuclear power plants, one large plant a week around the world for the next 40 years, to make a significant dent in the global warming problem.

  Arjun Makhijani

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, War, Race

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.280, Best Books on

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• I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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• Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

  John Bolton

  Reality, Thinking, Weapons

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• The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

  Mark Regev

  Reality, Community, Understanding

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