“Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.”
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 360
“Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.”
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches
Molly Scott Cato (1963) British economist and Member of the European Parliament
Quoted in CornwallLive. Cornwall and Devon European MP Molly Scott Cato arrested after breaking into US air base in Belgium https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-devon-european-mp-molly-2564421 (20 February 2019) <br class="br">2019
“Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.”
Kim Jong-un (1984) 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea
Source: This is cannot be attributes to Kim Jong-un, this quote comes from movie The Interview (II) (2014)
Angela Merkel (1954) Chancellor of Germany
Nicht die Welt muss dem Iran nachweisen, dass er eine Bombe baut, sondern der Iran muss die Welt überzeugen, dass er die Atombombe nicht will.
At the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2007
2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: War is not the answer. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. Let us not join those who shout war and, through their misguided passions, urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations. These are days which demand wise restraint and calm reasonableness. We must not engage in a negative anticommunism, but rather in a positive thrust for democracy, realizing that our greatest defense against communism is to take offensive action in behalf of justice. We must with positive action seek to remove those conditions of poverty, insecurity, and injustice, which are the fertile soil in which the seed of communism grows and develops.
Shimon Peres (1923–2016) Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of Israel
As quoted in "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent", Ynetnews (1 September 2007) http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3444458,00.html
Johann Hari (1979) British journalist
Will we wake from our nuclear coma?, JohannHari.com, October 20, 2004, 2007-01-26 http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=465,
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Time (8 June 1981) " An Interview with Gaddafi http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922551-2,00.html" <br class="br">Interviews
Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer
Source: Night Film