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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.


Ogden Nash


#disarm #i #idea #man #overwhelm

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.


Benjamin Netanyahu


#cast #casts #commission #committee #disarmament

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.


Ludwig Quidde


#always #among #armaments #demand #disarmament

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.


Ludwig Quidde


#armaments #contributes #depends #disarmament #limitation

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.


Ludwig Quidde


#does #even #guarantee #maintenance #peace

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


#armaments #attained #case #country #disarmament

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.


Ludwig Quidde


#attained #been #carried #consideration #declaring

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.


Ludwig Quidde


#attainment #disarmament #idea #lasting #lasting peace

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


#armaments #been #countries #curtailed #disarmed

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.


Ludwig Quidde


#between #danger #disarm #disarmament #distrust






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