N Quotes
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“Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.”
Source: Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning
“Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.”
“Nuclear weapons free world is not a dream but a necessity for human survival. We need stop waiting for things to happen. We need to go ahead and make things happen.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Nuclear weapons give an attacking nation a devastating advantage over any feasible defense. New sciences will soon empower small groups, even individuals, with similar leverage over society.”
Source: Our Final Century
“Nuclear weapons have only been used twice, both times in the war against Japan. In each case it was used by the United States during World War II. The first was used on August 6, 1945, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and the second was dropped three days later over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The two bombs resulted in the deaths of nearly a quarter million people!
Recently I have heard it said that since we have the second largest arsenal of nuclear bombs, we should use them to teach North Korea a lesson and reduce tensions. Perhaps we are the ones that need to learn a lesson, so let me start by saying that since these first two bombs that have been used in anger, over two thousand tests have been conducted and that it was Russia that tested the largest bomb ever detonated. On 30 October 1961, Russia which was then the Soviet Union, detonated what was called the Tsar Bomb, a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons which is more than 3,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Are we and our leaders insane? It is only the “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” of which we are a member that can reduce the spread and possible the use of nuclear weapons. Now with North Korea being a player, its effectiveness has been questioned and we are on the brink of engaging in a contest that threatens to kill 2,000,000 people in the first day. Many of these people are American military personnel and their families stationed in in Seoul, South Korea. Following any initiative on our part, including the taunts we are making, all bets will be off and there is the possibility that other countries will see the United States as the enemy that has to be stopped!”
“Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation”
“Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.”
“Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.”
“Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.”
“Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims”
“Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.”
“Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.”
“Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.”
“Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.”
“Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”
“Nudge, nudge. Snap, snap. Grin, grin. Wink, wink, say no more? Could be, could be taken on holiday. Could be yes - swimming costumes. Know what I mean. Candid photography. Know what I mean, nudge nudge.”
“Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.”
“Nudging into the final corridor of a life lived loudly – the final phase will be no less loud.”
“Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.”
“Nudists have no fashion sense.”
“Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-violence of movies and television dwells on the lively acts of killing – flying kicks, roaring weapons, crashing cars, flaming explosions. These are the moral equivalents of old-time cinematic sex. The fictional spurting of gun muzzles after flirtation and seduction but stop a titillating instant short of actual copulation. The results of such aggressive vivacity remain a mystery. The corpse itself, riddled and gaping, swelling or dismembered, the action of heat and bacteria, of mummification or decay are the most illicit pornography.”
“Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that's something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.”
“Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.”
“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.”
“Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.”
“Nudity is a deep worry if you have a body like a bin bag full of yoghurt, which I have.”
“Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.”
“Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind”
Source: Paul Outerbridge Jr: photographs
“Nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor.”
“Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly removed from the treasures they conceal. When you undress a woman you are opening the drapes in a darkened room to gaze upon a glimpse of paradise.”
Source: The Secret Life of Girls
“Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.”
“Nudity is not beauty.....
Beauty is something that melts your heart, not just makes your dick hard.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.”
“Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.”
“Nudity is undignified and an error of taste”
“Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.”
“Nudity isn’t beauty—it’s an illusion, one that often disappears at the end of a sexual night. It cannot nourish the soul; it satisfies only the body’s temporary hunger. And this is why so many relationships today have such short lives—because they begin with the attraction of nudity, not the depth of inner beauty.”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Nudity quickly becomes unremarkable when generally practiced.”
Source: Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law
“Nudity seems to be an issue that America can't get over in general. I wonder when the day will come when we finally become okay with it, with the human form.”
“Nuestra calidad de vida depende positiva y directamente de nuestra capacidad de hacer “cosas aburridas” de manera efectiva”
Source: Libertad para Gente Inteligente: De la cognición a la acción
“Nuestra capacidad para conocernos a nosotros y al mundo que nos rodea es lo que nos hace humanos.”
Source: Allegiant
“Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqueletos que me habían atormentado. Las calaveras de los abedules, las de nuestros padres y ahora la de tía Anita.”
Source: Tierra fresca de su tumba
“Nuestra civilización sufre a causa de plantas cuya existencia se remonta tiempos inmemoriales, y cuyas respectivas virtudes fueron explotadas a fondo por todas las grandes culturas. Hasta hace algunas décadas nadie se preocupaba de regular su siembra o recolección, mientras ahora ese hecho botánico cobra dimensión de catástrofe planetaria. A tal punto es así que su amenaza reúne a capitalistas y comunistas, a cristianos, mahometanos y ateos, a ricos y pobres, en una cruzada por la salud mental y moral de la humanidad.”
Source: Historia general de las drogas
“Nuestra cultura codifica las reglas para comer sabiamente en una complicada estructura de tabúes, rituales, recetas, modales y tradiciones culinarias que nos evitan tener que enfrentarnos de nuevo al dilema del omnívoro en cada comida.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Nuestra democracia, con todos su fallos, es un logro inmenso de la Humanidad, Bruna. El resultado de muchos siglos de esfuerzo y sufrimiento. Escucha, el mundo se mueve, la sociedad se mueve, y cuanto más democrática, más movilidad y capacidad para cambiarla.”
Source: Tears in Rain
“Nuestra especie ha albergado creencias en seres animistas durante al menos 35.000 años.”
Source: Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going – A Witty Study of Humanity by a Noted Anthropologist
“Nuestra especie ha dado un salto gigantesco hacia la complejidad social: en ello reside nuestro éxito, pero también el mayor peligro que nos acecha.”
Source: Orígenes: El universo, la vida, los humanos (Drakontos)
“nuestra especie humana no tiene un gran historial en comportamiento inteligente.”
Source: Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“Nuestra evolución ha seguido su propio camino hacia una socialización muy desarrollada. Siempre hemos sido primates sociales, pero ahora lo somos en grado extremo.”
Source: Orígenes: El universo, la vida, los humanos (Drakontos)
“Nuestra existencia requería aquella niebla de irrealidades bajo cuya ilusión nos deslizábamos como dentro de un sueño. Sí, nuestro gran error fue pretender zafarnos de aquel mundo fantástico”