 First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war. |
| Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. |
| Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. |
| My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics. |
| The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. |
| A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". |
| The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. |
| The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. |
| If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. |
| War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. |
| The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. |
| I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. |
| There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. |
| It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women. |
| All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. |
| We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. |
| I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. |
| Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? |
| The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. |
| War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. |
