Charles E. Allen quotes

Charles E. Allen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.”
-- Charles E. Allen

#Nuclear Quotes #Terrorism Quotes #Concern Quotes

“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”
“In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.”
“You're always going to have terrorism.”
“American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.”
“If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.”
“Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.”
“I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.”
“There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.”

Source : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.
“My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.”
“Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.”

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