Government Quote by Bertrand Russell

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

— Bertrand Russell

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to…

— Hermann Goring

“It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error. As the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the…

— Daniel D. Polsby

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or…

— Barack Obama

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to…

— Elliott Abrams

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

— George W. Bush

I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national tragedy? If…

— Malachi Ritscher

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle…

— Elie Wiesel

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've…

— Lee Ryan

I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of…

— Henry Waxman

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way…

— Baron de Montesquieu