Joseph Rotblat Quotes

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

Joseph Rotblat

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• I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Weapons
  • Table

• The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Weapons

• Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Something
  • Weapons
  • Chemical

• The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Things
  • Moon
  • Stars

• The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

  

  Chuck Horner
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear
  • Obsolete

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Death
  • Purpose

• World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pain

• Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

  

  Sophocles
  • Judge
  • Powers
  • Prudence

• I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • War
  • Weapons

• Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Certain
  • Bodies
  • Powers

• How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

  

  Confucius
  • Powers
  • Beings
  • Display

• Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fear
  • Weapons
  • Tools

• Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Weapons

• Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Creatures
  • Weapons

• Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Used
  • Weapons
  • Soldiers

• I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Law
  • Understand
  • Powers

• The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

  

  John Milton
  • Darkness
  • Powers
  • Martyrs

• Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Time
  • Business
  • Interesting

• Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sanity
  • Permanent
  • Neurosis

• There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Bullying
  • Gestures

• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Ungrateful
  • Disloyal

• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • King
  • Army

• But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

  

  Joseph Rotblat
  • Weapons
  • Powers
  • Cling