Arms Race Quotes - Page 3

• I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Race, Levels

  "Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• We're looking at the dawn of a new arms race. For example, Germany technically opposes the US space militarization program, but is bound to get involved. Otherwise it will be left behind in the development of advanced technology. Germany understands that very well. The US understands it too, and they fully expect that Germany and other countries that they want on board will go along with the program.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Technology, Space

  Source: www.madre.org

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• As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Powerful, Military, War

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

  Marc Goodman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

  Marc Goodman (2015). “Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World”, p.545, Random House

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• Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

  Paul Virilio

  Country, War, Suicidal

  Source: ctheory.net

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• We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Race, Command And Control, Decision

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

  Michael Sandel

  Race, Arms, Height

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Israel, Nuclear Iran

  Source: genius.com

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• Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

  Howard W. Koch

  War, Fighting, Army

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• Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

  Stanley Kubrick

  War, Wish, Machines

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• We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Winning, Race

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• Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

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• You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Winning, Race, People

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Play, Keys

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• What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own

  Eleanor Duckworth

  Teacher, Children, Simple

  Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”

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• The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

  I. F. Stone

  Optimistic, Technology, Men

  I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, May

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Military, War, Race

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Years, Needs

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strength, Nuclear, Weapons

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• You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

  Steven Pinker

  Animal, Thinking, Race

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• Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

  Hugh Sidey

  Party, Two, Race

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• We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.

  Andrei Grechko

  War, Race, Trying

  "The Role of Nuclear Forces in Current Soviet Strategy". Book by Leon Gouré, p. 53, 1974.

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• if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  War, Race, Arms

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