Top 1200 Atomic Weapons Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.

The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen, which will conquer the world.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.

If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

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

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.

It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.

The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire bombs in Tokyo than dropping of the atomic bombs accounted for. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. The dropping of the bombs stopped the war, save millions of lives.

It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

I don't believe in God, so I'd say that laughter is one of the only true weapons for fighting against real darkness, grief and loss.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

It doesn't matter if it's aliens or emotional weapons or whatever - it's still a real story about big feelings that have to come out.

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Designing new low-yield nuclear weapons for limited strikes dangerously lowers the threshold for their use.

Donald Trump has a lot of supporters with a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and access to incredibly powerful lethal weapons.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.

Nations have succeeded before in banning classes of weapons - chemical, biological and cluster munitions; landmines; blinding lasers.

Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs?

Just out of curiosity, how many weapons are in that thing? (Kiara) Enough to make me happy. (Nykyrian)

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

In my man cave, I have tomahawks, throwing knives, and old black-bear furs. There's skulls, weapons everywhere.

Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons.

Assad's suspected chemical weapons attack shows he is willing to go to barbaric lengths to hold onto power.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.