Quotes and Sayings about Nuclear Weapons

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

As long as weapons of mass destruction exist, primarily nuclear weapons, the danger is colossal. All nations should declare... that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. This is to save ourselves and our planet.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons to invade on our sovereignty.

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time; now, we finally have the power to finish the job.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

What if Einstein's parents had held him back? We wouldn't even have the... - I was gonna say "atomic bomb", but there's probably a better example.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The world is very very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table.
I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

If you mean when will Chernobyl be completly save - the half-life of Plutonium 239 is 24,000 years. Perhaps we should just say, "not in our lifetimes."

The accident is well under control.

Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

The bow that's stretched too much breaks.

If I didn't have this gun, the king of England could walk right in here and start pushing you around.

The bullet of an M16 shoots out at 2100 miles per hour. Faster than the speed of sound. So if they shot you in the heart, you won't even hear the bullet that killed you.

One last thing left to do. I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back, one bullet at a time.

Never bring a knife to a sword fight. Unless it's concealed.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

North Korea, voted Korea of the year by North Korea Magazine for the past three decades.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

I do everything I can to prevent escalation that will lead us into World War III. There must not be a nuclear conflict.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

The US must stand with Hong Kong, and remain a determined force for its autonomy.

Woman, Life, Freedom.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

This must be an opportunity to start bridging divides and restoring trust, based on the equal rights and freedoms of every single member of humanity's eight-billion-strong family.