“Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.”

If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

There’s a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter.

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

The organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.

Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.

I don’t think there’s any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America’s vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.

Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.

I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they’re going to exist. But they’re losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.

Ther’s still a few honest folks left but they never seem t’ find anything you lose.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.

Are you keeping anything else from me? Im keeping a lot of things from you. Like? Like the way i feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.