Armed Quotes
612 quotes by 467 authors
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral…
— John Quincy Adams
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of…
— Irwin Redlener
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Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that…
— Li Bingbing
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the…
— Liya Kebede
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If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.
— Gerry Adams
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
— Zubin Mehta
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One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to…
— Henry Rollins
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If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room…
— Richard Dawkins
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Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and…
— Michael Specter
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An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get…
— Marianne Williamson
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Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
— Noam Chomsky
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The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that…
— Elliott Abrams
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The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
— Elliott Abrams
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Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has…
— Scilla Elworthy
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Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest.
— Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see…
— Ban Ki-moon
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We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country…
— John F. Tierney
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There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not…
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in…
— Robert Dallek
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