Unarmed Quotes

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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. — Niccolo Machiavelli
There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't… — David Icke
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;… — Rudolph Rummel
According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following… — John Oliver
I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people… — Megan McArdle
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth — Boris Pasternak
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali… — P.J. O'Rourke
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed — Mickey Kaus
Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast,… — Robert A. Heinlein
I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the… — Mahatma Gandhi
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to… — Philip Caputo
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the… — Huey Newton
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With… — David Gell
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES… — Mel Duncan
The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed… — Jesse Jackson
You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed… — Don Tapscott

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