"New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might."

-- David Lange

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“Reading musses up my mind.”
“There is no tomorrow to remember if we donâ€™t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.”
“Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racismâ€™s almost over. Because this is the lastâ€”this is the act up before the sleep. Theyâ€™re going crazy. Theyâ€™re insane. You want to get rid of themâ€”and the next thing you know, theyâ€™re fâ€”-ing knocked out. And thatâ€™s whatâ€™s going on in the country right now.”
“The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.”
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
“Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief”
“I only wish I had more time for fund raising.”

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