Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

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We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

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As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

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So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

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There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

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The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

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In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

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It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

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