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  • The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

    "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.
  • Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.

    Rights   Guy   Littles  
  • Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.
  • We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

    History   Atoms   Nuclear  
    Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948
  • So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

    Death   Science   Men  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.45, New Directions Publishing
  • Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

    Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961
  • It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

    Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  • I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

    Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).
  • Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

    Lying   Heart   Thinking  
  • A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

    Dark   Destiny   Men  
    Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
  • I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.
  • The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

    "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.
  • Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

    Physics in the ContemporaryWorld (1947)
  • Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  • We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

    World   Weapons   Truman  
    "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 213), 1984.
  • But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.

    Night   Iran   Iraq  
    "Benjamin Netanyahu on Alleged Rift With President Obama, Mideast Peace Process". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2010.
  • If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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