Bruce Kent
Bruce Kent
Bruce Kentis a British political activist and a former Roman Catholic priest. Active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he was the organisation's general secretary from 1980 to 1985 and its chair from 1987 to 1990. He now holds the honorary title of vice-president. In 1960 he joined the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a specialist section of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth22 June 1929
optimistic men thinking
I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.
people position trying
We know the people who have got them are still trying to get some negotiating position from them and they haven't put a deadline. I am hopeful.
iran nuclear weapons
If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
religious people way
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
gmos people difficult
Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.
organization awful manipulation
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
war answers cannibalism
It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.
abolition chinese fact mind nuclear weapons
They have done negotiations but never with abolition in mind in fact we are making more nuclear weapons here, the Americans, the Russians, the French, the Chinese are probably the same.
alive nervous obviously quite speaking though
They're alive and they're not having nervous breakdowns, they're obviously speaking quite sensibly, even though we don't know what they're saying.