I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder…

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a…

— Anonymous

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man…

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

— Guy Fawkes

“The Chinese people had invented the compass, paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the seismograph, the crossbow, and the umbrella; they had sailed to Africa…

— Peter Hessler

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any…

— Che Guevara

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special…

— Wendell Phillips

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

— Megan Whalen Turner

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.

— William Shakespeare

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

— Peter S. Beagle

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

There are two things necessary to Salvation… Money and gunpowder.

— George Bernard Shaw

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

— Austin O'Malley