Weapons famous quotes

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Gun #Gun Control #Weapons

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
-- Abdallah II

#Scare #Weapons #Chemicals

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.
-- Abdullah Ocalan

#Ideas #Weapons #Speak

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Weapons #Sophisticated #Defeated

Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.
-- Adela of Normandy

#War #Army #Weapons

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Weapons #Willpower

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
-- Akbar Ganji

#War #Weapons #Way

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
-- Akio Morita

#Different #Weapons #Break

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
-- Al Gore

#Iraq #Long #Weapons

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.
-- Alain Enthoven

#Peace #Weapons #Matter

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
-- Alan Keyes

#Gun #Looks #Weapons

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
-- Alan King

#Fun #Want #Weapons

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
-- Alan Sugar

#Nuclear #Weapons #Mass

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Junk #Weapons #Defeated

My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.
-- Alexander Ovechkin

#Weapons #Shots

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
-- Alexander Pope

#Running #Tilt #Weapons

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.
-- Alexander Suvorov

#Fighting #Enemy #Weapons

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Discovery #Weapons #Facts

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

#Ideas #Weapons #Virtue

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak
-- Alice Miller

#Disrespect #Weapons #Weak

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.
-- Ally Carter

#Memories #Use #Weapons

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
-- Alva Myrdal

#Weapons #Firsts #Steps

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
-- Alva Myrdal

#Learning #Nuclear #Weapons

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#War #Men #Weapons

Force is the weapon of the weak.
-- Ammon Hennacy

#Peace #War #Weapons

Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York...
-- Andrew Cuomo

#New York #Gay #Weapons

Let love be your perfect weapon.
-- Andy Biersack

#Love Is #Perfect #Weapons

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.
-- Andy Roddick

#Thinking #Weapons #Kind

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
-- Angelique Kidjo

#Heart #Brain #Weapons

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
-- Ann Brashares

#Peace #Sex #Weapons

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
-- Ann Druyan

#Military #World #Weapons

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.
-- Anne Desclos

#Kinky #Weapons #Young

It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.
-- Anthony Swofford

#War #Use #Weapons

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Believe #Flower #Weapons

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
-- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

#Fighting #Weapons #Spirit

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.
-- Ari Fleischer

#War #Iraq #Weapons

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Facts #Weapons

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Iraq #Weapons #Duration

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Iran #Nuclear #Weapons

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.
-- Arlen Specter

#Numbers #Democracy #Weapons

Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Mistake #Weapons #Nuclear

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Dinosaurs #Weapons #Computer

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#History #Weapons #Honest

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Believe #Nuclear #Weapons

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
-- Assata Shakur

#Needs #Weapons #Construction

I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.
-- Attila the Stockbroker

#Team #Kingdoms #Weapons

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
-- Augusto Boal

#People #Acting #Weapons

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.
-- Augusto Boal

#Theatre #Weapons #Reason

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
-- Ayn Rand

#Mind #World #Weapons

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.
-- Banksy

#Art #Wall #Weapons

Weapons of war have no place on our streets
-- Barack Obama

#War #Weapons #Streets

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.
-- Barack Obama

#War #Soldier #Weapons

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
-- Barney Frank

#Powerful #Politics #Weapons

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn
-- Bayard Rustin

#Needs #Body #Weapons

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Israel #Would Be #Weapons

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Humanity #Nuclear #Weapons

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.
-- Bernard C. Parks

#Gun #Weapons #United States

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
-- Bernard Lown

#Order #Long #Weapons

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
-- Bernard Lown

#Evil #Nuclear #Weapons

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
-- Bert Holldobler

#Nuclear #World #Weapons

If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
-- Bert Holldobler

#Weapons #Ants #Nuclear

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
-- Bertolt Brecht

#Book #Men #Weapons

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Ideas #Humanity #Weapons

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.
-- Bill Vaughan

#War #Weapons #Flaws

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
-- Bobby Knight

#Basketball #Men #Weapons

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
-- Brian May

#Guitar #Weapons #Shields

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.
-- Bruce Hoffman

#Suicide #Perception #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.
-- Bruce Kent

#Iran #Nuclear #Weapons

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Airports #Weapons #Prison

William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"...."Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." ...."And what now is your defense?" Colour returned to Billy's face, and his jaw tightened. His voice surged with emotion. "Faith...faith is my shield.
-- Bryan Davis

#Voice #Weapons #Shields

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
-- C. G. Weeramantry

#Nuclear #Weapons #Creation

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.
-- Cai Guo-Qiang

#Book #Weapons #Victim

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.
-- Calista Flockhart

#People #World #Weapons

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.
-- Calista Flockhart

#Way #World #Weapons

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
-- Carl Hiaasen

#Humor #Weapons #Incredibles

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's
-- Caroline B. Cooney

#Believe #People #Weapons

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
-- Carolyn Hart

#Looks #Weapons #Persons

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt

#Prayer #Defense #Weapons

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Hurt #Weapons #Killing

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.
-- Celine Kiernan

#Men #Weapons #Males

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Powerful #Sacrifice #Weapons

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Vampire #May #Weapons

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.
-- Charles Bass

#Labs #Weapons #Administration

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Power #Silence #Weapons

A laugh can be a very powerful thing.  Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.
-- Charles Fleischer

#Powerful #Laughing #Weapons

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
-- Charles Krauthammer

#Gun #Preparation #Weapons

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Science #Weapons #Today

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
-- Charles Rangel

#September 11 #Hussein #Weapons

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
-- Cher

#Weapons #Sometimes #Wounds

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
-- Chester W. Nimitz

#Military #Weapons #Economy

My weapon is literature
-- Chinua Achebe

#Literature #Weapons

To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.
-- Chris Bradford

#Mean #Victory #Weapons

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
-- Chris Kyle

#Numbers #Weapons #Way

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.
-- Christian Louboutin

#Men #Weapons #Feminine

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Weapons #Causes #Logic

No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed.
-- Christine Caine

#Mistake #Weapons

Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.
-- Christofer Drew

#Love Is #Generations #Weapons

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.
-- Christopher Dodd

#Nuclear #Politics #Weapons

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
-- Chuck Horner

#Nuclear #Want #Weapons

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.
-- Clara Zetkin

#War #Fighting #Weapons