Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands. —Deepak Chopra More about this quote Tags: war weapons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: war weapons failure bombs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone speaks of peace; no one knows what peace is. We know at best a poisoned peace. No one has lived on an earth without weapons, without war and the threat of war on a large and small scale. —Christina Thürmer-Rohr More about this quote Tags: war peace weapons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Making weapons is what we know how to do best, the supreme achievement of late-twentieth-century American civilization. To this blessed work we assign our finest intellect and the largest share of our treasure, and in the magnificence of an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile we find our moral and aesthetic equivalent of the Sistine ceiling and Chartres Cathedral. —Lewis Lapham More about this quote Tags: weapons morality achievement America civilization missiles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace. —Linda Hogan More about this quote Tags: peace weapons children bombs death shock despair Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war weapons necessity problems energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email