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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. -- John Ralston Saul
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. -- Aldous Huxley
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. -- Ludwig Quidde
Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse. -- James Burnham
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster. -- Aldous Huxley
Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments. -- Norman Mailer
For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war. -- Edward Dunlop
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security. -- Ludwig Quidde
Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments. -- Bashar al-Assad
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. -- Ludwig Quidde
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. -- Ludwig Quidde
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. -- Albert Einstein
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace. -- Martin Luther
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians. -- Arthur Miller
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe. -- Thor Heyerdahl
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world. -- Idi Amin
When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments. -- Bashar al-Assad
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. -- Ludwig Quidde
If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. -- Randal Cremer
In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments. -- Bashar al-Assad
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world. -- Norman Thomas
Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments. -- Stanley Baldwin
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. -- Woodrow Wilson
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year? -- Peter Ustinov
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else. -- T.H. White
Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. -- Ludwig Quidde
We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. -- William Jennings Bryan
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. -- Ludwig Quidde
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about? -- June Jordan
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. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. -- Christian Lous Lange
We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe. -- Leonid Brezhnev
You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement... contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want. -- Bashar al-Assad
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. -- Ludwig Quidde
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger... -- Jean Vanier
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. -- William Watson
Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race. -- Albert Einstein

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