“I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time.”

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.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.

I’ve got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don’t know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you’ve got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.