Mutually Assured Destruction Quotes

“So you're saying, we've got a, a shoggoth gap?”
― Charles Stross, A Colder War

“Here's the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more.”
― Sherman Alexie

“You have theoreticians who say, "The U.S. must stop the process of nuclear armament. We have enough already. Today America has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the other half of the world. Why should we need more than that?" Let the American nuclear specialists reason this way if they want, but for some reason the nuclear specialists of the Soviet Union—and the leaders of the Soviet Union—think differently.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West

“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new myth, a communal idea of something outside a species apparently intent on dooming itself.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“You’re too young to remember it,” Verity's mother said, “but we were expecting nuclear war all the time, really, up into my early thirties. Later, all of that felt unreal. But the feeling that things became basically okay turns out to have actually been what was unreal.”
― William Gibson, Agency

“The promise of mutually assured
destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Black Legion

“I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too." - Sir Denis Nayland Smith”
― Sax Rohmer, The Shadow of Fu-Manchu

“If aid
I cannot, I can mightily avenge.
On irremediable wrong I shrink not
To pile immortal ruin, there to lie
As trophies on a carven tomb: nor less
For that no memory of my deed survive,
Nor any eye to see, nor tongue to tell.”
― Robert Bridges, Demeter: A Mask