Destructive Capacity Quotes

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.