Quotes About Weapon

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

The coward's weapon, poison.

We have a safe and good command-and-control system. Nobody can take away any nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

I think revenge is an extremely potent and powerful weapon, and hatred is more powerful sometimes than love.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.