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Disarmament Quotes by Ludwig Quidde
- The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of…
- When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament…
- Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
- Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
- Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the…
- Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
- Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would…
- Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament…
- So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined,…
- The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and…
More Disarmament Quotes
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows… — Bernard Baruch
- Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must… — Tony Blair
- War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to… — Smedley Butler
- Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from… — Kofi Annan
- Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
- Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. — Hermann Hesse
- Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen. — Jeff Cooper
- We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate… — Patrick Murphy
- In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near
- We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the… — Harrison Ford