Stephen M. Walt (Stephen Martin Walt) Quotes

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

Stephen M. Walt

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• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Today
  • Countries
  • Within

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Religion
  • China
  • Countries

• Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Secure
  • Threatened
  • Herself

• Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Proud
  • Countries
  • Cricket

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Countries
  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Atom

• India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Religion
  • Countries
  • Millionaire

• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Doe
  • Politician

• Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Food
  • Sick

• We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Iran
  • Nuclear
  • Axes

• A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.

  

  L. William Seidman
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Safety

• The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Countries
  • Common Name

• I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Reading
  • Questions
  • Countries

• There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Countries
  • Tried
  • Muslims

• In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Believed
  • Socialism
  • Countries

• Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Countries
  • Experts
  • Developing

• The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Mankind
  • Conflict

• We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way.

  

  Alex Scarrow
  • Way
  • Answers
  • Seek

• You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Want
  • Talking
  • Spending

• The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

  

  Stephen M. Walt
  • Countries
  • Nuclear
  • Threatened