Weapons Quotes - Page 40

• We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Russia, Wind, Achievement

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• The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Use, Possibility, Existence

  "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.

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• Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

  Jan Struther

  Oblivion, Mood

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

  Anthony Swofford

  War, Use, Matter

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• There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.

  Zhuge Liang

  Mind, Prepared, Greater

  "Fictional character: Zhuge Liang". Video Game "Dynasty Warriors 8", February 28, 2013.

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• As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

  Herman Kahn

  Would Be, Nuclear, World

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

  Herman Kahn

  Differences, World, May

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• My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

  Herman Kahn

  Years, Next, Nuclear

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.31, Lexington Books

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• New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Development, Dangerous

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.36, Lexington Books

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• Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Emotional, People

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

  Herman Kahn

  Nuclear, Use, Moral

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

  Herman Kahn

  Numbers, Objectivity, Nuclear

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books

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• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Aggravation, Two

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• To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

  Herman Kahn

  Organization, Peaceful, Use

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• When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Simple, Men, Ak 47

  "Kalashnikov, 90, decries 'criminal' use of rifle" by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Roddy, www.reuters.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Names, Doing Good, Good Things

  "From Russia With Love" by Tony Long, www.wired.com. September 20, 2004.

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• I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Ak 47, Borders, Faults

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• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

  Gene Sharp

  Fighting, Opponents, Violence

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• That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.

  Gene Sharp

  Hero, Fighting, People

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• The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.

  Paul Monette

  Stupid, Dirty, Book

  Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Sophisticated, Defeated, Superpower

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Hands, Years, Feelings

  "A Final Word From Carrie Brownstein". NPR "Monitor Mix" column by Carrie Brownstein, www.npr.org. October 6, 2010.

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• The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

  Heinz Guderian

  Gun, Tanks, Engines

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