Top 36 Armament Quotes
#1. The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Hjalmar Schacht
#2. One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.
Herbert Hoover
#3. The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
Hannah Arendt
#4. War ... strengthened the position of the armament industries ... to a point ... that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations ... war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct.
Doris Lessing
#5. That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.
Richard Hough
#6. I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.
Eric Burdon
#7. The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.
Sean MacBride
#8. The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.
Albert Einstein
#9. Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
Frank B. Kellogg
#10. The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
Albert Einstein
#11. So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
Bulent Ecevit
#12. Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it
Jean Chretien
#13. In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.
Albert Einstein
#14. With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.
Hjalmar Schacht
#15. Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
Ahmed Yassin
#16. Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.
Pope Paul VI
#17. In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
Albert Speer
#18. That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Chester W. Nimitz
#19. To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods. If these truths mean the world is less comforting than it might have been, it seems like a pretty small price to pay.
Mira Grant
#20. If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
Alva Myrdal
#21. Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around.
Bram Stoker
#22. but it was considerably better than my current defensive armament, which consisted of harsh words and heavy disapproval. Probably not effective against Klingons. Spike
Dennis E. Taylor
#23. I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
Frank B. Kellogg
#24. Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
Norman Mailer
#25. Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
Martin Luther
#26. Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)
Randy Alcorn
#27. We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.
Leonid Brezhnev
#28. Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
Stanley Baldwin
#29. The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.
Edward Dunlop
#30. I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#31. We'll have all the best of this and Heaven too, the best of two Worlds!-Heaven now and Heaven to come!
David Berg
#32. My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.
James Bay
#33. You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
Bill Wyman
#35. It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James
#36. There is a limit where all armaments ain't strong enough to secure current world economic system and practice.
Toba Beta
