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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 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."
"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."
"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."
"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
"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."
"All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial."
"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."
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