Best Armament Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.”

Thinking Way States Form Certain Organization Function Interpretation Way Of Thinking Militarism Armament

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.”

War States Imagine Danger Demand Ideals Assuming International Dare Pennies Superfluous Armament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.”

Giving Information Activity Labor Ministers Camps Armament

Author:Albert Speer

“The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.”

Ideas States Achieve Security Military Illusion Technique Armament

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.”

Giving Government Defence Do Not Fear Armament

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.”

Force Military Dangerous Europe Areas Bases Confrontation Reduction Armed Forces Armament Military Bases

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.”

“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”

Ifs Form Air Security Members Increase Method Assumption Fallacy Examining Armament

Author:Stafford Cripps

“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

“A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.”

May War Strong Nations Peace Honest Security Military Threat Prepared Permanent Guarantees Mutual Be Prepared Maintenance Armament Mutual Trust

Author:Albert Einstein

“Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.”

“Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.”

“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”

Ifs Made Force Realizing Race Authority Police Insane Armament

Author:Alva Myrdal

“The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.”

Art War Artist Can Do Politician Threat Warning Armament

Author:Arthur Miller

“All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.”

People War Interest Profit Journal Reduction Armament Vested Interests

Author:Randal Cremer

“What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.”

Firsts Mean Long War Running Dies Sides Security Danger Balance Offers Claims Terror Strikes Delusion Cynical Long Runs Minimum Absurdity Both Sides Armament

Author:Christa Wolf

“Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.”

Unions Soviet Soviet Union Armament

Author:Norman Mailer

“The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.”

War Moral Obvious Armament

Author:Edward Dunlop

“A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.”

Ifs Way Needs Mean War Fighting Fiction Arms Program Contrary Fantastic Assumption Agreement Disarmament Pernicious Antagonism Armament

Book:The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

“A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.”

Has Beens War Situation Growing Elements Tragedy Ill Selfish Trends Temper Aggression Threatened Peace War Armament Ill Will Isolationism

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?”

Men Care Running America White Cities New York Nuclear Health Care New York City White Man Boast Subway Filth Jeopardy Armament Mismanagement

Book:On call: political essays

Source: On call: political essays

“There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.”

Mean Inspiration Differences Ability Power Economic Willing Authority Gains Obedience Intimidation Armament Bidding Coerce Physical Strength

Book:No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

Source: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

“For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.”

Race India Suicide Court Armament

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.”

Firsts Stills War Character Winning Study Military Defense Profitable No War Armament Deterrent

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.”

“Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.”

World War Feelings Effort Failing Regret Resources Structure Defense Devoted Surveys Impart Armament Free World

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.”

War Country Wish Opinion Return Balance Elements International Conclusion Welcome Preparation Anarchy Armament Balance Of Power

Author:Arthur Henderson

“We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.”

People Made Reality Decision Modern Battle Demand Wake Up Responsible Available Insane Former Our Time Makers Ancestor Irresponsible Axes Armament Decision Makers

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.”

Believe Past I Believe Greater Respect Contrary Armament

Author:William Watson

“We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.”

World Trying Years Two Whole Found Building Years Ago Wake Up Trade Whole World Preserves Destructive Barriers Sanity Threatening Armament

Author:Owen D. Young

“Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.”

States Might Would Be Political Loss United Race United States Military Weapons Gains Advantage Nuclear Psychological Usa Damage Nuclear Weapons Prestige Armament

Author:Albert Einstein

“I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.”

People Thinking War Asks Makers Lots Of Money Armament

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria's grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.”

Ifs Knows World Years Firsts Looks Mean War Running Connections Queens War Of The Worlds Related Britain Buying Royal Victoria Royal Family Armament First World War Grandson

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.”

Two Difficult Situation Conditions Mankind Historic Armament

Author:Pope Paul VI

“The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.”

Knows Men Firsts Knowing Weapons Tools Shelter Gratification Armament

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.”

Evil Mankind Danger Industry Armament

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.”

Nations Understanding Race Honest Relation Lasting Armament

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.”

Men Needed Uniforms Assault Foe Inhuman Armament

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.”

War Injustice Firm Armament

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.”

War Country Hands Party Glory Competition Greed Aliens Appeals Internals Socialist Conquest Ruthless European Countries Armament Socialist Party

Book:Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage

Source: Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage

“This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.”

Heart Soul Self Lying Mankind Casts Self Worth Self Respect Deprived Sense Of Self Unbroken Armament Humanness Dehumanization

Book:Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.”

Use Energy West Nuclear Peaceful Armament Nuclear Energy

Author:Mir-Hossein Mousavi

“When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.”

World Use Order Natural Roles Army Terrorist Civilians Armament

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.”

Use Example Sticks Terrorist Balloons Rubber Armament

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their food and water. What I mean is cutting off their life support system.”

Knows Mean Water Answers Support Cutting Funding Isis Armament Support Systems Cutting Off

Author:Jill Stein

“I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent.”

World Mean Made Sides Middle Arms Amount East Disaster Violent Enormous Secure Desperate Middle East Dealer Libya Unleashed Armament

Author:Jill Stein

“Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.”

May Sometimes Primitive Armament

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Let's presume that a country or army has this weapon ; this kind of armaments cannot be used by infantry for example or by anyone. This kind of armament should be used by specialized units, so it cannot be in the hand of anyone.”

Should Kind Country Hands Used Example Weapons Army Units Armament Infantry

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.”

Giving Years Long Said Party Giving Up Exception Initiative Armament

Author:Bashar al-Assad

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