Nuclear Quotes

• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

  Carl Sagan

  Two, Race, Enemy

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• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, History, Nuclear Missiles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

  Abdul Kalam

  Dream, India, Weapons

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• There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.

  Martha Smith

  People, Wife, Groups

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• All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

  Alva Myrdal

  Learning, Weapons, Mankind

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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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• The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering

  Oscar Arias

  Common Humanity, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

  Alan Cranston

  Blow, Simple, Nuclear Disarmament

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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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• I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Writing, Years, Paper

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Energy, Atoms, Predictions

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• We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Risk, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

  James Lovelock

  Oil, Rivals, Profit

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• The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

  Jasmine Guy

  Appreciate, Church, Nuclear Families

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• The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

  Alva Myrdal

  Victory, Age, Illusion

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Lecture Disarmament, Technology, And The Growth In Violence by Alva Myrdal 1982 Nobel Peace Prize December 11, 1982.

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• Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

  Joe Lieberman

  Pregnancy, Wmd, United States

  "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. August 4, 2002.

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• Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

  Tom Udall

  School, Law, Weapons

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• In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iran, Iraq, United States

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