Gunpowder Quote by Ana Patricia Botin

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition,…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

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

One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

— Thomas Carlyle

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

— Ambrose Bierce

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

— Chief Joseph

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas A. Edison

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

— Wendell Phillips

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

— Albert Einstein