Haile Selassie Quotes

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery.

It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

I could not conceive of any President engaging in all-out nuclear war unless we were in danger of all-out devastation ourselves.

The decision to use any kind of nuclear weapon, even the tactical ones, presents such a risk of it getting out of control so quickly …

I don't know why people are always afraid of a nuclear blast.

Survival Under Atomic Attack

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.