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Quotes About Weapons

Our Shepherds', he wrote angrily, 'Thirsted to make the guardian Crook of Law/A tool of Murder': Giants in their impiety alone, But in their weapons and their warfare base As vermin working out of reach, they leagued Their strength perfidiously to undermine Justice, and make an end of Liberty.
~ Jenny Uglow
If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.
~ Erich Fromm
Economists look with some apprehension to the time when we stop producing armaments, and the idea that the state should produce houses and other useful and needed things instead of weapons, easily provokes accusations of endangering freedom and individual initiative.
~ Erich Fromm
The U.S. Congress had previously codified this antipathy with the passage, starting in 1935, of a series of laws, the Neutrality Acts, that closely regulated the export of weapons and munitions and barred their transport on American ships to any nation at war. Americans were sympathetic toward England, but now came questions as to just how stable the British Empire was, having thrown out its government on the same day that Hitler invaded Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
~ Erik Larson
But there are remises or storage places where you may leave or store certain things such as a locker trunk or duffel bag containing personal effects or the unpublished poems of Evan Shipman or marked maps or even weapons there was no time to turn over to the proper authorities and this book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain had provided the time and Russia the blood necessary to defeat the Axis, it was America that produced the weapons.
~ Andrew Roberts
I was never going to not want more swords
~ Andrew Rowe
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
~ Ann Druyan
There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
~ Ehud Olmert
There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.
~ Richard N. Haass
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
~ Robert McNamara
Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
~ Scott Ritter
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
~ Jimmy Carter
My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
~ Hamilton Jordan
I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
The desire to vanquish, the nihilism always implicit in love, varies according to the weapons which are employed.
~ Robert Desnos
violence exercised in self-defense, which all societies from the most primitive to the most cultured and civilized, accept as moral and legal. The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi, who sanctioned it for those unable to master pure nonviolence.
~ Robert F. Williams
En los meses que siguieron, entrevistaría a todos los supervivientes, todos los testigos —soldados de las Naciones Unidas y civiles libaneses— y a los fabricantes de armas estadounidenses involucrados en ese espantoso asunto, que sigo considerando como un crimen contra la humanidad.
~ Robert Fisk
Hacia fines de abril de 1992, las instalaciones de armamento nuclear de Al Atheer habían sido destruidas y el búnker utilizado para las pruebas se había sepultado con cemento, un proceso que se llevo a cabo con la ayuda forzada de centenares de trabajadores iraquíes.
~ Robert Fisk
1984), lanzacohetes múltiples de Brasil (junio 1984), bombas de racimo de 250 kilos de Chile (enviadas desde Santiago a bordo de 747 de las líneas iraquíes en 1984).
~ Robert Fisk
Fue una misión triste y deprimente porque cuanto más aprendía menos remedio parecía tener la tragedia de Oriente Próximo. Que los venales países occidentales traficaran con sus letales productos en el mundo musulmán e Israel era una cosa; otra muy diferente era contemplar esos mismos países de Oriente Próximo suplicando, gimiendo y despilfarrando su riqueza para comprar esas mismas armas.
~ Robert Fisk
As our society grows more mobile, and as the availability of weapons of mass destruction increases, the ability of the antisocial personality to realize his rapacious and murderous fantasies grows apace.
~ Robert K. Ressler
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?
~ Robert M. Gates