Gerald Nye Quotes

It is our fixed purpose that our surplus war equipment should not be employed in encouraging warfare by fostering militarism and the building up of the competitive armaments that threaten the peace of the world. It in no way precludes us from furnishing arms to aid in the putting down of insurrectionary attacks upon public order in a neighboring State

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

One cannot abolish only a single weapon, but only war as a whole.

Advances in weaponry go much faster than arms control.

The merchants of death have provided jobs for centuries, but that's no reason to continue it.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

War is a racket.... The only way to stop it is by conscription of capital before conscription of the nation's manhood.... Let the officers and directors of our armament factories, our gun builders and munitions makers and shipbuilders all be conscripted—to get $30 a month, the same wage paid to our lads in the trenches. Give capital 30 days to think it over and you will learn by that time there will be no war. That will stop the racket—that, and nothing else.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

We are calling for a ban on weapons deliveries to countries listed as human rights violators, to governments that are engaged in wars of aggression, military occupation, and annexation and spend more money on weapons than on education and health care.

Disarment ... is a continuing imperative.

International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.

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

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.