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Quotes About Unarmed

They looked at her quizzically, came at her with assumptions, presumptions, what they believed was intimate knowledge of her. She felt unarmed, by comparison; disadvantaged.
~ Lorrie Moore
there was no hesitation on the part of Anglo settlers to consider unarmed civilians of all ages as appropriate targets of violence.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli PROLOGUE 16 June 1941 Union Station El Paso, Texas The killer's code name was HECKLE.
~ John J. Gobbell
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
~ John J. Gobbell
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
~ John L. Lewis
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
~ Mark Twain
We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
~ Ayn Rand
Lacey, you don't understand." He felt weightless, benumbed. He had nothing to fight with, not even a blade. "We're totally unarmed. I've seen what he can do." "There are weapons more powerful than guns and knives," the woman replied. Her face held no fear, only a sense of purpose. "It is time for you to see it." "See what?" "What you came to find," said Lacey. "The Passage.
~ Justin Cronin
A man was the cause of it. An unarmed man with a weapon.
~ Frank O'Hara
We don't run away from people unless we fear them and... we don't fear them unless we know that we are unarmed.
~ Henry James
He hated weapons, and not just because they'd so often been aimed at him. You got into more trouble if you had a weapon. People shot you instantly if they thought you were going to shoot them. But if you were unarmed, they often stopped to talk. Admittedly, they tended to say things like, You'll never guess what we're going to do to you, pal, but that took time. And Rincewind could do a lot with a few more seconds. He could use them to live longer in.
~ Terry Pratchett
Jesus turned sober. "Peter, get James and John. We are going up Mount Hermon." Simon gulped. Whatever had happened inside that cave, the incident at the Gates of Hades was a breach of the walls. But how could four unarmed commoners make an assault on the stronghold of evil itself?
~ Brian Godawa
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
~ Suzanne Collins
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do, especially if the target is unprepared. I
~ Suzanne Collins
We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.
~ Rachel Corrie
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
~ Antony Beevor
An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.
~ Ivica Dacic
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
~ Cesare Beccaria
A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.
~ Frank O'Hara
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
~ Giraldus Cambrensis
It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed, powerless, and not prepared to allow your friends and family or whomever to perish first.
~ James Clavell
I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.
~ Ronda Rousey