| "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." »Russell Baker |
| "As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling." »Walter Goodman |
| "A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons." »Benjamin Netanyahu |
| "A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." »Dixie Lee Ray |
| "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." »General Omar Nelson Bradley |
| "If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)." »Stephen Jay Gould |
| "For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics." »Denise Caruso |
| "The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." »G Gaia |
| "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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