Threads (1984 TV Movie)

Maggie Ford: Peace Speaker

Quotes 

• Peace Speaker : This time, they are playing with at best the destruction of life as we know it, and at worst total annihilation. You cannot win a nuclear war!

  [amid cheers] 

  Peace Speaker : Now just suppose the Russians win this war... What exactly would they be winning? What would they have conquered? Well, I'll tell you: all major centres of population and industry would have been destroyed...

  Heckler #1 : Industry? What industry? We ain't got no industry in Sheffield!

  Peace Speaker : [trying to make herself heard amongst the jeers]  Yes, and if the money hadn't - if the money hadn't - if the money hadn't been spent on nuclear weapons, you would have built up industry.

  Heckler #2 : Get back to bloody Russia! Where you belong!

  Heckler #3 : Where's your red flag?

  Peace Speaker : We would have put money into welfare, we would have found alternative sources of energy. Industry...

  [pauses for applause] 

  Peace Speaker : Industry will have been destroyed. Oil refineries will have been destroyed, all our water will have been polluted, the soil will have been irradiated. Farmstock will be dead, diseased or dying. The Russians would have conquered a corpse of a country.