Bernard Baruch Quotes

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

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.

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Weapons are the tools of fear.

In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

War is the science of destruction.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

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

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

For every security measure, there is a counter measure that breeds further insecurity. The acquisition by Pakistan or Iran of a nuclear capability neutralizes the security achieved by Israel’s own nuclear capability. Non-governmental terrorism neutralizes governmental military superiority. Chemical weapons neutralize the security of cement walls.