We should begin in our own environment and in our own community as far as possible to build a peace-loving attitude and learn to discipline ourselves to accept, in the small things of our lives, mediation and arbitration. As individuals, there is little that any of us can do to prevent an accidental use of bombs in the hands of those who already have them. We can register, however, with our government a firm protest against granting the knowledge and the use of these weapons to those who do not now have them. (20 December 1961)

A consciousness of the fact that war means practically total destruction is the reason, I think, for the rising tide to prevent what seems such a senseless pro…

As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples of the world the valu…

In times past, the question usually asked by women was 'How can we best help to defend our nation?' I cannot remember a time when the question on so many peopl…

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, t…

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... [It] brings us into very dangerous territory and it coul…

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. I have no d…