Cannons Quote by Victor Hugo

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time…

— Anna Quindlen

Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was…

— Anonymous

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor…

— Roger Waters

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen…

— Martin Luther

Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged -…

— Diego Cortez

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their…

— Alfred Nobel

“the inquisitors of yesteryear knew only too well, as do the country snatchers of today: torture is useless for protecting people. It is only…

— Eduardo Galeano

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

— James Russell Lowell

I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're…

— Stellan Skarsgard