Weapons Quotes
2233 quotes by 1357 authors
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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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If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
— Pope John Paul II
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing…
— Barry Commoner
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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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They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
— Janet Reno
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This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
— Bertrand Russell
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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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Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
— William O. Douglas
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Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern…
— George F. Kennan
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that…
— Isaac Asimov
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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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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:…
— G. H. Hardy
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It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
— Robert McNamara
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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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Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the…
— Elie Wiesel
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