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Quotes About Weapons

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.
~ Propertius
The two chief weapons which parties use in order to ensure success are the public press and the formation of associations.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Caminando sobre nuestras cuerdas flojas, llevamos nuestros miedos y fijaciones como armas desnudas, y los usamos tan rápida y mortalmente como Billy the kid usaba su revólver»
~ Alfred Bester
Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
You could never have too many knives in Logen's experience,
~ Joe Abercrombie
A fighting man's a fool that don't keep his weapons clean and ready. Dogman had been over his no more'n an hour before. Still, you won't be killed for checking 'em, while you might be for not doing it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
NOTES FROM THE AUTHOR Recent geopolitical events have served to remind us all of important old lessons: The world is a volatile, dangerous place. Victory in one war can unpredictably heighten global tension and instability, creating power vacuums to be filled by ambitious new terrorists and tyrants, triggering more armed strife. International coalitions ebb and flow, but the proliferation of weapons of
~ Joe Buff
I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.
~ Bernard Lown
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
~ Oswald Chambers
When the platoon got going, he'd act as the armorer. He offered us a choice of weapons. A Winchester Model 70, 30-06 was the basic weapon of choice.
~ Ed Kugler
Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance.
~ Ed McGaa
Leela: "There are many implements here that would make excellent weapons. See, over there! With a few modifications, that could be an effective tank!" The Doctor: "It's a ride-on lawnmower." Leela: "It's churning blades would be a fearsome sight as we rode into battle!" The Doctor: "I'm not sure we'd be such a fearsome sight riding into battle at three miles an hour.
~ Eddie Robson
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -- but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.
~ Edward Abbey
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.
~ Edward Abbey
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.
~ Edward Abbey
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer.
~ Edward Abbey
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
~ Anonymous
And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]
~ Anthony Boucher
As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
And his father was right: trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.
~ Frank Herbert
Now she saw only the circle of stars. They were like the luminous tips of weapons aimed down at her. A shower of meteors crossed her patch of night. The meteors seemed to her like a warning, like tiger stripes, like luminous grave slats clabbering her blood. And she felt the chill of the price on their heads.
~ Frank Herbert
Tulbur?rile publice È™i comediile sunt arme profund revelatoare în orice epoc?. Ele dezv?luie climatul psihologic, gravele incertitudini... È™i dorinÈ›a arz?toare de mai bine, amestecat? cu teama c? nu se va realiza niciodat? nimic.
~ Frank Herbert
The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families causes some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. Guild and Landsraad contain the keys which hold this force in check. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are developing.
~ Frank Herbert
This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.
~ Mohammed Omar