#ty

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#honest #i #jargon #lies #outright

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#oneself #order #ought #party #remain

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#endure #god #him #lack #man

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#confront #courage #imagined

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#be the first #declare #down #first #form

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#authority #fellow #fellow men #his #man

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destroys #may #nuclear #nuclear weapons #ones