Country Quote by Albert Einstein

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“For while a weapons capability is clearly required in our unstable and aggressive world, the scale of defence spending in countries both under threat…

— Andrew Feinstein

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

— John F. Kerry

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth…

— Benazir Bhutto

“It is important for long-range stability that peaceful countries be well armed and well organized in self-defense.”

— Freeman Dyson

We would not accept any country telling us who to buy weapons from and who not to buy from.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be…

— Alex Kozinski

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

— Blase J. Cupich

If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that…

— Joseph Rotblat

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons,…

— Oscar Arias