Unarmed Quotes · Page 3

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

— Claudius Claudianus

All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I would chalenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.

— William Shakespeare

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.

— Common

The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

— Antony Beevor

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

— Ronda Rousey

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

— Quentin Tarantino

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

— Rand Paul

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool…

— Don Tapscott

“- You are unarmed? + Always - You stand alone? + Often - You are the one who should be afraid. +…

— Steven Moffat

Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they…

— David Gell

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking…

— Barry Eisler

An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with…

— Ivica Dacic

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of…

— Al Sharpton

There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a…

— Peter Watts

A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws.…

— Matthew Yglesias

An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers…

— David Brewster

The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire…

— Cesare Beccaria

Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that…

— Che Guevara

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was…

— Common

“This last statement should have sent alarm bells going off in my head, but I was in hock to the guy for…

— E.R. White Jr

Our love is like a war. & I came unarmed to the battlefield.

— SilentBlueJay

“It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

— Anonymous

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

— Huey Newton

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed,”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber…

— Mickey Kaus