Quotes About Disarmament

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

DISARM ALL RAPISTS But what will we do With their legs?

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.

By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

To govern more securely some Princes have disarmed their subjects...but by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either by doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

But by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

Di qui nacque che tutt'i profeti armati vinsono, e li disarmati ruinorono. Perché, oltre alle cose dette, la natura de' populi è varia; et è facile a persuadere loro una cosa, ma è difficile fermarli in quella persuasione.

Sir, be proud: today you came close to a happy death; and behave in the future with the same nonchalance, knowing that the soul dies with the body. Go then to death after having savored life. We are animals among animals, all children of matter, save that we are the more disarmed. But since, unlike animals, we know we must die, let us prepare for that moment by enjoying the life that has been given us by chance and for chance.

An oppressed class which does not strive to learn the use of weapons [the Russian word, oruzhiia, contains another wonderful long r], to practice the use of weapons, to own weapons, deserves to be mistreated Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The demand for disarmament in the present-day world is nothing but an expression of despair.