Joseph Rotblat Quotes

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• If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Powerful, Insecure

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

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• At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Powerful, Destiny, Play

  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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• The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Cold

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Technology, Race

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris

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• Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Proliferation Treaty

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Above all remember your humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Humanity, Remember

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.122, I.B.Tauris

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• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Race, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.135, I.B.Tauris

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• I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Effort, Humanity, Would Be

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• My worry is that other advances in science may result in other means of
  mass destruction, maybe more readily available even than nuclear weapons.
  Genetic engineering is quite a possible area, because of these dreadful
  developments that are taking place there.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Engineering

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• My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Long, Vision

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• I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Humanity, Saws, Harmony

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Zero, Nuclear, Use

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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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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• This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Reality, Civilization

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Heart, Race

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Scary, Cuban Missile Crisis

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Technology, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Discovery

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Responsibility, Humanity, Remember

  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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• We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Essentials, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Citizens, World

  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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• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Weapons, Firsts

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Flesh, Scientist

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• The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Philosophy, Nuclear, Nuclear Deterrence

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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