Armament Quotes - page 2

I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high. (Eric Burdon)
With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
What happened at Hiroshima was less than a millionth part of a holocaust at present levels of world nuclear armament. View quote
Jonathan Schell
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics. View quote
Bernard Baruch
Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
[I]f Kim Il Sung had won the war, Korea today would not look like North Korea. I think it would still be a much less free and prosperous place than the South is now, but it would resemble China and Vietnam more than the North now does. Its system has been shaped by the need to distinguish itself, to seal itself off from the rival state, and to pursue nuclear armament. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
Korean nationalism has not only energized the North's march to nuclear armament, but also exerted a growing appeal on people in the South - the ideological discourse of which republic has received even less attention than the North's. The average American knows only that in the 1980s liberal democracy replaced authoritarianism here [in South Korea]. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
We now have no option but to end war forever because with the nuclear bombs and armament today, we can destroy all life... it's up to us. We have to do it. We have to make the decision. View quote
Benjamin Creme
I have to confess that I felt rather proud of the simple device of my suffocating cloud. The Prospero of poisons, the Faustus of the front, bringing mental magic to modern armament. View quote
Tony Harrison
He thought that he had now established an influence over Herr Hitler, and that the latter trusted him and was willing to work with him. If this was so, it was a wonderful opportunity to put an end to the horrible nightmare of the present armament race. That seemed to him to be the big thing in the present issue. (Neville Chamberlain)
Today the need both to maintain a welfare state, i.e. a parasite State at home, and to support a huge and ever-growing burden of armament cost makes it absolutely essential for developed capitalist countries to secure the maximum return in profit from such parts of the international financial complex as they control. View quote
Kwame Nkrumah