"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
About this Quote
This quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower is a call to action for mankind to utilize its intelligence and comprehension to find a peaceful service to international conflict. Eisenhower is mentioning the irony of humanity's ability to produce weapons of mass damage, yet its failure to find a peaceful service to worldwide war. He is recommending that if we can develop weapons that are so effective that they could result in global suicide, then we ought to be able to utilize our intelligence and comprehension to find a peaceful option. He is prompting us to use our intelligence and understanding to discover a method to avoid global war and to find a tranquil service to worldwide conflict. He is reminding us that we have the power to create a better future for ourselves and for future generations.
"I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable"
"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it"
"As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide"
