“The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.” IdeasStatesAchieveSecurityMilitaryIllusionTechniqueArmament Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions
“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.” ForceMilitaryDangerousEuropeAreasBasesConfrontationReductionArmed ForcesArmamentMilitary Bases Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“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.” MayWarStrongNationsPeaceHonestSecurityMilitaryThreatPreparedPermanentGuaranteesMutualBe PreparedMaintenanceArmamentMutual Trust Author:Albert Einstein
“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.” FirstsStillsWarCharacterWinningStudyMilitaryDefenseProfitableNo WarArmamentDeterrent Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“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.” StatesMightWould BePoliticalLossUnitedRaceUnited StatesMilitaryWeaponsGainsAdvantageNuclearPsychologicalUsaDamageNuclear WeaponsPrestigeArmament Author:Albert Einstein
“80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.” WorldTwoCountrySometimesStatesPurposeCoursesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryArmsPercentThirdsTradeFavorsDevelopingDictatorPromotingBansSellersBuyersArmamentDeveloping Countries Author:Amartya Sen