Arms Race quotes:

Send

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. -- Carl Sagan
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. -- Herman Kahn
I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region. -- Robert M. Gates
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts. -- Dianne Feinstein
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? -- Pope John Paul II
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. -- Joseph Rotblat
I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations. -- Gustav Heinemann
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. -- Joseph Rotblat
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. -- Joseph Rotblat
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were. -- Daniel Berrigan
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp. -- Pat Sajak
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. -- Lech Walesa
I'm not an expert on the arms race. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all. -- William J. Clinton
The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches. -- John Denver
Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense. -- Sergey Lavrov
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race. -- Arthur Henderson
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings. -- I. F. Stone
The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security. -- Barack Obama
To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. -- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets. -- George Lee Butler
Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race. -- John F. Kennedy
I'm not an expert on the arms race. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. -- K. Eric Drexler
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others. -- Mark Pagel
It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings. -- Wendy Kopp
India, Pakistan, China, Singapore and South Korea are heavily investing in nuclear arms. Since 21st century is the century of Asia, Asian countries should be the first ones to drop this arms race. -- Oscar Arias
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation. -- Eric Ries
The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up. -- Joshua Foer
To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. -- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen. -- Annie Jacobsen
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region. -- Liam Fox
Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else. -- Mark McKinnon
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves. -- Martin Amis
Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. -- Edward Abbey
if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him. -- Newt Gingrich
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves. -- Jello Biafra
I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide. -- Paul Virilio
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race... -- Jerry Brown
I agree that we need a working relationship with Russia to deescalate a nuclear arms race, to resolve the crisis in Syria. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. -- Lord Mountbatten
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. -- Virgil
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms. -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out. -- Norman Mailer
We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill. -- Marc Goodman
My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it. -- Gene La Rocque
Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed. -- Hugh Sidey
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy. -- Pope John Paul II

Send