Armed Quotes
612 quotes by 482 authors
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta…
— Astley Cooper
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The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed…
— Gene Spafford
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The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to…
— Joel Barlow
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01…
— Oliver North
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It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large…
— Sanford Levinson
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Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now…
— Zuheir Mohsen
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality…
— Salvador Allende
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The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful…
— Emma Goldman
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take…
— Ban Ki-moon
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from…
— Landon Pearson
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If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
— Irwin Shaw
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The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we…
— Al Gore
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When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around…
— Barack Obama
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is…
— Howard Zinn
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Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.
— Pope John XXIII
Who Wrote These Armed Quotes
482 authors contributed a total of 612 Armed Quotes, led by these top contributors: