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"Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality."
Morality

"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."
Defence

"My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained."
Weapon

"I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking."
Thinking

"Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion."
People

"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."
Policy

"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
War

"I'm against fashionable thinking."
Thinking

"Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral."
War

"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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"Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs, doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead."
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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
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"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."
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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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