“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.” PeopleWorldWellsEasyLinesPovertyImaginePolicyFieldsNuclearBillionsRegionsDozenNuclear WarPosseMelons Author:Herbert Schiller
“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.” HumansWarOpportunityHuman BeingsCommonEnemyPovertyIgnoranceDependsDiseaseCreatingWeaponsAbsenceNuclearNuclear WeaponsWorth LivingLife Worth LivingTrue PeaceCommon Enemy Author:Barack Obama
“The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.” PeopleWorldNeedsTryingNextEnergyBehindsHalfPovertyDangerousSeriousCleanAccessNuclearBillionsPlanningGlobal WarmingElectricityDangerous ThingsRenewable EnergyAbout FamilyProliferationAlleviateOverpopulationFamily PlanningNuclear ProliferationSolar Panels Author:Ted Turner
“Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are your plans to eliminate nuclear weapons? To answer these correctly is to bring love into action.” EndsActionAsksAnswersLeaderPovertyPlansPoliticianProtectWeaponsClimateNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Jonathan Granoff
“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.” PoliticalCultureCausesPovertyEventsCreationVictoryWeaponsIndiaNuclearPsychologicalIndianNuclear WeaponsPakistanRiotCleansingEthnic CleansingProliferationHavocIndia And Pakistan Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPovertyDyingFrontsNeededAreasNuclearOperationsUnemploymentPakistanManipulateCarrotsProliferationNuclear ProliferationMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.” MenWorldShouldHardFallWishPovertyIgnoranceDiseaseRainHungerBurdenNuclearCatastrophe Author:Haile Selassie
“For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.” ShouldProblemSchoolEnergyGivenResultsPowerfulMoralPovertyIssuesFailingCenturySecurityIgnoranceGayUniversalClaimsClimateClimate ChangeFocusedNuclearMost PowerfulBigotryGenocideEnginesFrameworkGay MarriageProliferationRelativismFaith BasedNuclear ProliferationMoral RelativismEnergy Security Author:Sam Harris