Weapon Quotes
1018 quotes by 785 authors
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
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Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to…
— Esther Dyson
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of…
— William J. Clinton
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
— Wyndham Lewis
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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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The only weapon we have is comedy.
— Robin Williams
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We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.
— Mao Zedong
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This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics…
— Ronald Reagan
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I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I…
— Ronald Reagan
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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there…
— George Orwell
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much…
— Colin Greenwood
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
— Ronald Reagan
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the…
— William J. Clinton
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And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained…
— Dianne Feinstein
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If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by…
— George Washington
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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 see you carry…
— L. Neil Smith
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
— Philip Sidney
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