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Weapon Quotes by George Orwell
- 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…
- People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'…
- We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become…
- Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised…
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
More Weapon Quotes
- Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. — James M. Barrie
- The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. — Alfred Adler
- The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steven Biko
- The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. — Niels Bohr
- We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an… — John Bolton
- Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. — Omar N. Bradley
- Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. — Bertolt Brecht
- The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take. — John O. Brennan
- I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in… — Sandra Bullock
- I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities… — Dick Cheney
- It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now… — Dick Cheney
- Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. — Jacques Chirac