Rosalie Bertell quotes

“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

Source : Rosalie Bertell (2001). “Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War”, p.2, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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“We have to be part of something larger than ourselves, because our dreams are often bigger than our lifetimes.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

Source : "In What Do I Place My Trust?" by Rosalie Bertell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2005.

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“...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

Source : Rosalie Bertell (1985). “No immediate danger: prognosis for a radioactive earth”

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“Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

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“..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

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“Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

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“The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied.”
-- Rosalie Bertell

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“I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.”

“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”

“If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.”

“The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men and women who are volunteers in the fight for the cause of freedom. Its all about heart.”

“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”

“'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'”

“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”

“The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”

Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”

“We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.”