#power

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arsenals #begun #big #cold #cold war

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#anarchy #because #believe #bully #gandhi

The world will change when women reclaim their power as the sane, nurturing hands of love, which are ever reaching to cultivate a world of beauty, safety and harmony. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#power #women-s-rights #beauty

And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome. ↗

— Otto Schily

#absolutely #averse #cannot #closely #coming

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#budget #congress #death #embrace #forcibly

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#over #power #profound #seem #their

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#data #derive #determines #equation #existing

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#blind #blind man #carries #his #lame