"With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon."

-- Fela Kuti

#Weapons Quotes

“I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.”
“The paraphrase of GÃ¶del's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.”
“I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing something that makes me happy can possibly offend other people. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't have time for that.”
“One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist.”

Source : "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
“These are the days of bootleg love.”
“I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.”

Source : "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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