Disarmament Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

  Tony Blair

  Community, Conflict, Accepting

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• I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

  Ed Miliband

  Moving, Nuclear Disarmament, Together

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• The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Agreement, Important

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.331, Best Books on

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• The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

  Arthur Henderson

  Struggle, Thinking, Order

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• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  E. B. White

  Moving, Knights, Organization

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press

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• I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Responsibility, Race, Arms

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• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Relationship, Two, Guarantees

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• Extending social and economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of war with a culture of peace, and building true security for all the world's people.

  Douglas Roche

  Military, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.

  Hans Bethe

  Country, Nuclear Disarmament, Skills

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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• I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

  Hans Bethe

  Country, Creating, Mass Destruction

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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• Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

  Elihu Root

  May, Moral, Materials

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• Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

  Jacques Chirac

  Circles, World, Weapons

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• The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Agreement, United States, Way

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.172, Best Books on

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• Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Struggle, Creativity

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.133, Beacon Press

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• Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.830, Best Books on

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• What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Destruction

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• People will not disarm step by step; they will disarm at one blow or not at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Blow, People, Steps

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

  David Cortright

  Nuclear Disarmament, Development, Weapons

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• It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Hands, Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons

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• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Powerful, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.

  Denis Halliday

  Media, America, People

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• We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Moving, Space

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• The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Zero, Trying, Nuclear

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• The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

  Oscar Arias

  Nuclear Disarmament, Earth, Weapons

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