The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. — John McAfee Copy Share Image
Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . .… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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