Quotes About Disarmament

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

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

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's]. And if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him, in the name of peace.

A disarmed peace is weake.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

Your bones ache on the brink of morning. You split open. I am warning you and I warned you. You disarm. I tell you and I told you. You undress. You divest. You come undone.

All disarmament plans had been buried.

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.

My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.

It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.