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" The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. "

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" The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization. "

" Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. "

" If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. "

" All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. "

" There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. "

" It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them. "

" I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. "

" The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. "

" The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. "

" Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? "

" It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. "

" I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. "

" War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. "

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" The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. "

" War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. "

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