Possess Nuclear Weapons

Famous quotes containing the words possess, nuclear and/or weapons:

    “To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1993)

    “Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams—Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)