Weapons Quotes · Page 58

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

— Propertius

Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't…

— Rich Galen

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

— Ovid

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and…

— Joyce Meyer

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

— Lois Lowry

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

— John Charles Polanyi

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being…

— Ruth Wilson

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants'…

— Terry Pratchett

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine,…

— John Updike

I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of…

— Ted Turner

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with…

— Stephen Baldwin

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar…

— Sigmund Freud

The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their…

— Iccho Itoh

“During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like…

— Steven Ramirez

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made…

— Alfred de Musset

Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests,…

— George W. Bush

I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its…

— Venus Williams

I want to reassert again the position of the United States that with regards to Iran, we will not allow Iran to…

— Leon Panetta

“This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He…

— John Schaff

There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think…

— John Burroughs

Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests…

— L. Neil Smith

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that…

— Margaret Mead

There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not…

— Colin Powell

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

— Shan Sa

“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.”

— Steven Ramirez

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

— H. G. Wells

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

— Anonymous

The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

— Barton Gellman

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

— Philip Sidney

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

— George W. Bush

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

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

— Newt Gingrich

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

— Joseph Cirincione

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

— Eisaku Sato

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

— Bashar al-Assad

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

— Jeanette Winterson

The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

— Barack Obama

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

— Noam Chomsky