Weapons Quotes · Page 45

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

— Jimmy Carter

“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.”

— Kevin Alan Lee

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

— Jim George

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

— Anonymous

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

— David Mitchell

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

— Christoph Waltz

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas,…

— Hans Blix

He made a weak attempt to look innocent, but I knew better. "Should I guess how many concealed weapons you have or…

— Maria V. Snyder

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible…

— Rachel Held Evans

If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add…

— Sam Harris

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of…

— Peter Forsyth

As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they…

— Stansfield Turner

... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We…

— Philip Yancey

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in…

— Emily Greene Balch

As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I…

— Jacques Chirac

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But…

— John F. Kerry

The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an…

— Laozi

The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take…

— George Friedman

The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now,…

— Mohsin Hamid

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting…

— Gary Saul Morson

“Peter, Adam's Son," said Father Christmas. "Here, sir," said Peter. "These are your presents," was the answer, "and they are tools, not…

— C.S. Lewis

With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the…

— Jimmy Carter

[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

— John Burroughs

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

— Alice Sebold

Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the…

— Pope John Paul II

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive…

— Stephen King

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable…

— Bruce Lee

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

— Dee Dee Myers

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Women often use large fake breasts like a gun, pointing the weapon at you in an attempt to garner the attention their…

— Dov Davidoff

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

— Lawrence Korb

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

— Albert Einstein

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

— John F. Kerry

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their…

— William Gurnall

Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

— Sarah Palin

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Against persistent love there is nothing that can be done; it blunts all weapons

— Stuart Morris