Ted Turner Quotes

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Man now has the power to put an end to his own history.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't been punished yet, and the only punishment that could be adequate is the nuclear destruction of the world.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.

The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

The world was floods above and fire below

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.