#armament

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#armaments #back #building #competing #contrary

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#both #children #conflict #men #men and women

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council. ↗

— Javier Solana

#council #disarmament #eu #european #european union

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disarmament #does #fifty #follow #follows

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#fulfilling #iraq #our #possibilities #preventing

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#disarmament #i #move #multilateral #nuclear

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

#believe #contrary #diminution #future #gradual

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#am #class #communism #control #disarmament

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#commitment #desire #disarmament #entered #expressed

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#armaments #civil #economy #extremely #fighting