Weapons Quotes
2233 quotes by 1357 authors
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Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
— Herman Kahn
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The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer -…
— Herman Kahn
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The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or…
— Herman Kahn
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To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program,…
— Herman Kahn
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When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than…
— Gene Sharp
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That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with…
— Gene Sharp
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The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship…
— Paul Monette
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his…
— Hillary Clinton
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Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me…
— Carrie Brownstein
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The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
— Heinz Guderian
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If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are…
— Joseph Rotblat
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But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.
— Joseph Rotblat
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We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what…
— Selma James
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