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Quotes About Weapons

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.
~ Mao Zedong
what was the point of paying taxes, or obeying a law that forbade civilians from carrying weapons?
~ Unknown
To the clothing, he added a pump shotgun and a box of shells. A Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistol went in his Tahoe's gun safe with two extra magazines. If he needed more than fifty-one shots at somebody, he deserved to die.
~ John Sandford
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
~ Lois Lowry
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles, or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.
~ Ed Parker
For me high society is only a means to an end. It offers vulgar but invincible weapons, and if I want to be loved someday, I have to possess them.
~ Marcel Proust
Arms wide and palms empty, hyperconscious of how many weapons were trained on him, Cooper was thinking about all the ways things hadn't gone as planned. It had been a busy month. A busy year. He'd spent half of it undercover, away from his children, hunting the most wanted man in America. But when he'd found John Smith, Cooper
~ Marcus Sakey
Temporal grace,' said the Doctor. 'No weapons can function inside the TARDIS – even something as simple as a spear.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
~ Margaret Thatcher
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
~ Margaret Thatcher
We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
~ George W. Bush
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
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
~ Adolf Hitler
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
~ Frank Zappa
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Four specific missions were assigned: to spy on the nguy and American forces in the city; to recruit civilians to join the uprising and provide support; to train them with weapons and tactics; and to build a committed core who, when the battle began, would carry the wounded to medical stations in the rear and help feed the army. Weapons, ammo, food, and medical provisions all would be smuggled, stockpiled, and made ready.
~ Mark Bowden
If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish
~ Mark Frost
Whatever China has and Vietnam needs, we will provide," Mao intoned. The Chinese Communist Party "offers all the military assistance Vietnam needs in its struggle against France."[67] True to his word, Mao gave Ho everything he requested. During the first nine months of 1950, the Chinese shipped the Viet Minh 14,000 rifles, 1,700 machine guns and recoilless rifles, 60 artillery pieces, 300 bazookas, and a variety of other military equipment.
~ Unknown
Mark thomas: 'I am morally opposed to these weapons!' Columbian trade union activist: 'So I am but I find it very practical on occasion!
~ Mark Thomas
I shot him daggers. Along with swords, scythes, scalpels, shivs, shanks, stilettos, and any other sharp weapon I could think of that began with an "s.
~ Unknown
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge