William Greider Quotes

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

Anybody can kill anybody.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

The nexus between modern science and violence is obvious from the fact that 80 percent of all scientific research is devoted to the war industry and is frankly aimed at large-scale violence.

Any country that has a nuclear bomb is a super power.

War is death’s holy-day.

I would like to see invented a substance or a machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible forever.