“We now have no option but to end war forever because with the nuclear bombs and armament today, we can destroy all life... it's up to us. We have to do it. We have to make the decision.”
The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)
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“We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?”
As "Captain Mandrake" to Colonel Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Performances

Quoted in "A-bombs were 'God's gifts' to Japanese regime", Taipei Times (August 7, 2005).

“I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye.”
After the Luftwaffe bombed the Buckingham Palace whilst the King and Queen were in residence on 13 September 1940.
[Davies, Caroline, How the Luftwaffe bombed the palace, in the Queen Mother's own words, The Guardian, 13 September 2009, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/sep/13/queen-mother-biography-shawcross-luftwaffe]
“We have to make some decisions now.”
[The Wall Street Journal, FDA Warns of Danger From Virus Treatment, Burton, Thomas M; Hopkins, Jared S., April 25, 2020, A.1]

Talks in Saanen (1974), p. 71
1970s
Context: It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees, everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars.

From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)