Nuclear Quotes · Page 77

Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer…

— Studs Terkel

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here…

— Hermann Scheer

Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the…

— Martin Caidin

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the…

— Robert McNamara

Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds…

— Anatol Rapoport

Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.

— Vladimir Putin

You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians…

— John Burroughs

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

— Robert McNamara

Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would…

— Noam Chomsky

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons…

— Noel Gayler

The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On…

— Arundhati Roy

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

— Christopher Lasch

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever:…

— Michael Moore

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to…

— Stewart Brand

I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our…

— Thomas Sowell

There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If…

— Francis Collins

I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

— Valerie Plame

The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.

— David J. C. MacKay

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

— Sigmar Gabriel

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

— Joseph Rotblat

Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is…

— Hans-Peter Durr

I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people,…

— Robert Scheer

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands…

— Ted Turner

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No…

— Alec Baldwin

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is…

— Anne Applebaum