Ideas of three clients

Alfred Nobel

According to the Austrian countess Bertha von Suttner, Alfred Nobel, as early as their first meeting in Paris in 1876, had expressed his wish to produce material or a machine which would have such a devastating effect that war from then on, would be impossible. The point about deterrence later appeared among Nobel's ideas. In 1891, he commented on his dynamite factories by saying to the countess: "Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops." Nobel did not live long enough to experience the First World War and to see how wrong his conception was.

One could of course say that Nobel's view on the war deterring effect of weapons and explosives -- what would be later called the balance of terror -- was a comfortable way for him to defend his own activity. His understanding of conflict was not a structural one, but rather what one would characterise in modern terminology as actor-oriented, i.e. wars did not arise through structurally determined processes or contradiction of interests, but as a result of human acting, through different kinds of "accidents." War between nations was thus, to Nobel as a rule, nothing else than "enforced collective mise-en scène of individual battles for power."
Cell Biologist

Sven Tagil, "War and Peace in the Thinking of Alfred Nobel",
http://www.daemen.edu/news/3-22-02.html , Internet. (Accessed:00:01)



Jacques-Yves Cousteau

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

--Jacques-Yves Cousteau, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jacquesyve111542.html Internet.(Accessed:19:59)



Keith Campbell

"Most of the retailers in our center are reasonably optimistic. Nobody's seeing the headlines of Aemageddon that were appearing several months ago."

Keith Campbell, http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Keith+Campbell, Internet.