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Quotes About Weapon

We've been looking for a conscience of what we are. . . . We don't have enough weapons to overcome oppression and never will, although it's our duty to fight whenever our survival and our honor have to be defended. But our weapon must be the mind, each and every one's mind, which must not be dominated and have to assert itself. Our objective is not really equality, rather, it's justice, freedom, pride, dignity, good coexistence.
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro
It's a .38. I know you're a .22 girl, but it's time for us to take the next step in our relationship.
~ Joanna Wylde
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It can be a fearsome weapon, patience. One that few men ever learn to use.
~ Joe Abercrombie
HE HAS TEETH. SHE HAS A GUN.
~ Anne Bishop
Their faces I thought were knives. The way they pointed them at me. And waited. A hunter is someone who listens. So hard to his prey it pulls the weapon. Out of his hand and impales. Itself.
~ Anne Carson
The reason why I believe Ethel's story is as important today as ever is to realize what can happen when fear, a forceful and blunt weapon in the hands of authority, turns to hysteria and justice is willfully ignored.
~ Anne Sebba
I made it to protect the motherland.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
I would like to have my gun for protection.
~ Taya Kyle
It's double-action: You've got to cock it before you can fire.
~ F. Paul Wilson
Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them against identified enemy targets.
~ Colin Powell
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
~ Kurt Student
Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.
~ Tina Brown
It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.
~ Dick Cheney
Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.
~ Jack Monroe
Quando l'uomo con la pistola incontra l'uomo con la biro, l'uomo con la pistola è morto.
~ Roberto Benigni
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
~ Robin Hobb
The weapon we throw away today is the one at our throats tomorrow
~ Robin Hobb
Burrich told me that the ax was not a sophisticated weapon, but was a very satisfactory one if used correctly.
~ Robin Hobb
The axe is his weapon." Verity nodded slowly, "And he is mine.
~ Robin Hobb
Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, What did I say? What did I say? What did I say? asked Ivan indignantly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was the first and final battleground; the stuff in between was just noise.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Not only was Ivan an idiot, but he generated a telepathic damping field that turned people nearby into idiots, too. He would point this out to Barrayaran Intelligence, who would make of his cousin the newest weapon in their arsenal—if
~ Lois McMaster Bujold