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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.”

Ends Country Moving Causes Space Policy Weapons Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Disarmament Elimination

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.”

“Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.”

World Might Time Weapons Adults Disarmament

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.”

Long Order Weapons Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Disarmament American Life Rationalize

Author:Bernard Lown

“Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise”

May Long War Born Sky Crazy Weapons Soldier Handle Despise Disarmament

Author:Paul McCartney

“I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.”

Firsts Steps Policy Weapons Agree Realistic First Steps Disarmament Freezing

Author:Alva Myrdal

“The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.”

Done Facts Nations Greater Influence Exercise Negotiation Disarmament

Author:Alva Myrdal

“Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.”

People Wells War Violence Arms Increase Relation Everyday Productions Available Witness Preparation Cult Compelled Disarmament Legitimacy Proliferation Handguns Stilettos

Author:Alva Myrdal

“In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?”

Has Beens Matter Dream Age Difficult Moon Disease Atoms Splits Disarmament

Author:Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

“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.”

Trying Nations Planets Capable Nuclear Rational Folly Zero Destroying Capability Sheer Disarmament Rational Thought

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.”

“The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.”

Mean Faces Weapons Mass Destruction Threat Nuclear Aggressive Nuclear Weapons Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Disarmament Vigilant Proliferation Nuclear Proliferation

Author:Barack Obama

“When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.”

War Government Security Military Danger Willing Logic Distrust Disarmament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.”

Mean Simple Effort Concepts Disarmament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.”

Made Progress Security Depends Limitation Maintenance Disarmament Armament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.”

Ifs War Moving Nations Causes Teeth Usual Disarmament Causes Of War

Author:Ludwig Quidde

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

May Moral Materials Disarmament

Author:Elihu Root

“Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.”

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Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.”

Knows Humans War Fool Nuclear Catastrophe Madmen Unprecedented Disarmament Nuclear War

Author:Carl Sagan

“The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for unprecedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition.”

People Humans Use Would Be Plans Weapons Mere Burden Nuclear Innocent Reaching Dozen Sole Nuclear Weapons Catastrophe Parallels Proposal Slaughter Unprecedented Disarmament Abolition

Author:Jonathan Schell

“We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.”

Should Generations Bombs Disarmament

Author:Martin Sheen

“We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.”

Should Believe War Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear War

Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.”

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Author:C. G. Weeramantry

“The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.”

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Author:C. G. Weeramantry

“This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.”

Together Humanity Please Messages Mass Destruction Killing Practicals Denial Threatening Suicidal Machinery Mass Destruction Disarmament Unstoppable Acts Of Love

Author:Angie Zelter

“UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.”

“I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.”

People Play Millions Fronts Movement Calling Roots Nuclear Grass Parks Sunday Disarmament Central Park Nuclear Disarmament

Author:Jackson Browne

“Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.”

Source: What to do when you're bored and blue

“We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the governments of the world know that’s what they want.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Government Happens Action Voice Raises Goodwill Disarmament Crossroads

Author:Jody Williams

“Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.”

Doe Universal Guarantees Maintenance Disarmament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.”

Men Kind Said Streets He Man Demand Importance They Said Neglected Restriction Disarmament Pacifist Pacifism Armament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.”

Long Ideas Sound Security Eternal Importance Consideration Prime Pointless Disarmament Superfluous Pacifist Declaring Eternal Peace

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.”

Long Country Law Cases Impossible Military Protection Arguing Disarmament Armament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“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.”

Firsts Two Problem Relationship Security Guarantees Dependent Reverse Disarmament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It is multidimensional in scope, requiring meaningful participation of people at all levels.”

People World Culture Levels Elements Tasks Meaningful Participation Scope Disarmament

Author:Widad Akrawi

“There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.”

Thinking Looks Made Home Spirit Effects Army Defense Resistance Aliens Crush Occupation Aggression Employed Disarmament Compulsory Home And Family

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.”

War Peace Military Honor Mutual Anti War Antiwar Continuing Imperatives Disarmament Peace War No War Military Industrial Complex

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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.”

Way Believe Important States Would Be United Steps United States Weapons Tests International Nuclear Tension Agreement Lasting Nuclear Weapons Reduction Disarmament

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

“Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.”

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Book:Wir die Völker

Source: Wir die Völker

“The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.”

Views Security Keys Europe Unions Iraq Objectives Addresses Council Framework European Union Disarmament Security Council

Author:Javier Solana

“There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution 1441, just as it has failed to comply with previous U.N. Security Council resolutions. The international community gave Iraq one final opportunity to disarm peacefully, and that opportunity has run its course. Dr. Blix [Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector] told us on Monday that there has been no progress toward credible, verifiable disarmament.”

“Well, the United States has said that the disarmament of Iraq is the top priority, but we have also noted that there are many other United Nations Security Council Resolutions which are on the books, including the necessity to respect the human rights of all the citizens of Iraq that we're very interested in.”

“The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.”

Science Death Cities Progress Destruction Nuclear Massive Testament Monument Disarmament Hiroshima Nuclear Disarmament

Book:Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy

Source: Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy

“There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.”

Real Peace Materials Disarmament

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

“The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them- agree to change their course by clear and firm decision and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. The resources which would be saved could then be employed in projects of development capable of benefiting all their people, especially the poor.”

“One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms”

“With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.”

“A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.”

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Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

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