Weapons Quotes
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Judicious absence is a weapon. (Quote by - Charles Reade )
The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun. (Quote by - Heinz Guderian)
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. (Quote by - Omar Bongo)
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. (Quote by - Dennis Kucinich)
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. (Quote by - Karl A. Menninger)
So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. (Quote by - Mohamed ElBaradei)
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women. (Quote by - Maria Callas )
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. (Quote by - Kurt Student)
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. (Quote by - John Yoo)
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. (Quote by - Aaron Klug)
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere: therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbours of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating. (Quote by - Lakhdar Brahimi)
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police. (Quote by - John Howard)
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. (Quote by - Molly Ivins)
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. (Quote by - Alfred Whitney Griswold)
What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised. (Quote by - Calista Flockhart)
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. (Quote by - Manly Hall)
The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. (Quote by - Ani DiFranco)
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. (Quote by - George Santayana)
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
It was my devil's own temper that brought me to grief, my temper and a skill with weapons born of my father's teaching. (Quote by - Louise L'amour)
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. (Quote by - Solomon Ortiz)
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. (Quote by - Tom Daschle)
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. (Quote by - Alexander Cockburn)
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon. (Quote by - Victor Kiam)
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. (Quote by - Ferdinand Foch)
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. (Quote by - Terry Goodkind)
I get no say in my weapons, I always get like a blow-dryer. It totally looks like I just came from doing my hair. (Quote by - Natalie Portman)
Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nations. (Quote by - Jack Brooks)
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Quote by - Steven Biko )
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. (Quote by - Martin Amis)
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented. (Quote by - Sir Martin Rees)
A laugh is a terrible weapon. (Quote by - Kate O'Brien)
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. (Quote by - Bill Richardson)
Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not. (Quote by - Henry L. Stimson)
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. (Quote by - Tommy Franks)
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. (Quote by - Michael Moore)
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. (Quote by - Herbert Simon)
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. (Quote by - Saddam Hussein)
Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports. (Quote by - Mike Fitzpatrick)
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. (Quote by - Frank Muir)
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later. (Quote by - Wilfred Burchett)
Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. (Quote by - Dianne Feinstein)
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
The press is our chief ideological weapon. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal. (Quote by - John Sununu)
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. (Quote by - Louis Mountbatten)
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind. (Quote by - Brian May )
The world is his oyster. If you look at his game and his skills, he's got a huge serve, a very good tactical brain and other weapons. (Quote by - Jeremy Bates)
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. (Quote by - T. E. Lawrence)
The coward's weapon, poison. (Quote by - John Fletcher)
I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me. (Quote by - Ted Turner)
Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
Force is the weapon of the weak. (Quote by - Ammon Hennacy)
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. (Quote by - Alice Duer Miller)
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action. (Quote by - Harry Bridges)
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences. (Quote by - David R. Ellis)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I am very much against weapons in space. (Quote by - Scott Bakula)
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. (Quote by - Kary Mullis)
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Quote by - Georges Bidault)
Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational. (Quote by - David Walker)
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies. (Quote by - Andy Roddick)
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. (Quote by - William James)
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. (Quote by - Pope Paul VI)
Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect. (Quote by - Lou Brock )
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative. (Quote by - Lisa Marie Presley)
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. (Quote by - Frantz Fannon)
No weapon formed against me shall prosper. (Quote by - Fred Hammond)
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle )
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. (Quote by - Martin Farquhar Tupper)
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons. (Quote by - Mohammed Aldouri)
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. (Quote by - Carlos Santana)
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons. (Quote by - Joe Cannon)
Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. (Quote by - William J. Perry)
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. (Quote by - Heinrich Himmler)
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. (Quote by - Robertson Davies )
The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent. (Quote by - Phillip Adams)
The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders. (Quote by - Bobby Jindal)
I have seen no evidence of Iraq providing weapons of mass destruction to non-Iraqi terrorist groups. (Quote by - Richard Butler)
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon. (Quote by - Dustin Diamond)
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. (Quote by - Joshua Lederberg )
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. (Quote by - John McCain )
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. (Quote by - George Dennison Prentice)
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing. (Quote by - Michael Scheuer)
We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction. (Quote by - Andrew Niccol)
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. (Quote by - Carl Hiaasen)
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. (Quote by - Hermione Gingold)
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. (Quote by - Simon Wiesenthal)
There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all. (Quote by - Bill Graham)
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough. (Quote by - Dana Hill)
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan )
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. (Quote by - Angela Davis)
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. (Quote by - Alfred Whitney Griswold)
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. (Quote by - Jacques Chirac)
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson )
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it. (Quote by - Jet Li)
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. (Quote by - Golda Meir )
Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. (Quote by - Sidney Poitier)
Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party. (Quote by - Julian Critchley)
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement. (Quote by - Barbara Boxer)
The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. (Quote by - Charles Horner)
Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though. (Quote by - Arlo Guthrie)
His foe was folly and his weapon wit. (Quote by - Anthony Hope)
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. (Quote by - Hank Aaron)
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. (Quote by - A. B. Yehoshua)
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. (Quote by - Stephen Harper)
Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people. (Quote by - William L. Jenkins)
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. (Quote by - Georg Buchner)
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. (Quote by - Mark Twain )
