#disarmament

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#abandoning #adventure #become #building #collective

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#central #disarmament #equality #first #first step

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#armed #become #between #build #conference

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

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

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

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. ↗

— Tony Blair

#act #community #conflict #default #disarmament

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different. ↗

— Hans Blix

#ceasefire #did #different #disarmament #forced

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#been #best #comes #disarmament #down

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests. ↗

— Susan Rice

#elimination #eventual #interests #itself #manifestly