Weapon Quotes

The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Action is our greatest weapon against fear.
Left to molder, fear grows upon itself,
but in the face of action,
fear is left in the dust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- Charles de Gaulle

Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

Beauty is our weapon against nature;
by it we make objects,
giving them limit, symmetry, proportion.
Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
- Camille Paglia

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.
The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
- Carlos Santana

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
- Ferdinand Foch

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier
weapon than the machine-gun.
- George Orwell

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
- Anthony Hope

Wit is a weapon.
Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority.
But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin,
usually in solitude.
- Frank Muir

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon
against the suicide impulse.
- Karl A. Menninger

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor,
if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
- Michel de Montaigne

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
- Omar N. Bradley

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants;
enlightenment the salvation of the free.
- Bill Richardson

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds
it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
- Brian May

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai.
You had honor and chivalry much like the knights,
and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
- Dustin Diamond

A laugh is a terrible weapon.
- Kate O'Brien

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the
wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying
Black workers less for their work.
- Angela Davis

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
- James M. Barrie

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
- Alfred Whitney Griswold

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
- T. E. Lawrence

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon.
which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and
most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness
of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
- Omar Bongo

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related
to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
- Stephen Harper

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression.
It is possible to lie, and even to murder,
with the truth.
- Alfred Adler

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs;
we have no place to go.
- Golda Meir

It is far more important to be able to hit the target
than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
- Joseph Stalin

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind;
but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper

The nuclear weapon is obsolete.
I want to get rid of them all.
- Charles Horner

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
- Peter Ustinov

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear
weapon and give it to a terrorist organization.
And there is a real threat of them doing that.
- John McCain

The atom bomb was no "great decision."
It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
- Harry S. Truman

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction.
But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns.
It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
- Andrew Niccol

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
- Bertolt Brecht

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

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot
down an American Apache with an old weapon.
- Saddam Hussein

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do,
the only weapon I had was to say no.
- Sidney Poitier

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

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents,
President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal:
a bond with the people.
- William L. Jenkins

I do like to write nasty songs.
It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well,
because I create art out of anger, something positive
out of something negative.
- Lisa Marie Presley

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male,
vindictiveness of the female.
- Cyril Connolly

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Steven Biko

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies.
We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had
the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
- Kary Mullis

Your bat is your life.
It's your weapon.
You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
- Lou Brock

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon -
no alternative.
- Golda Meir

Force is the weapon of the weak.
- Ammon Hennacy

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Judicious absence is a weapon.
- Charles Reade

Americans in all places and levels of government have
begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare
ourselves from future threats,
including the latest weapon: bio-terror.
- Paul Gillmor

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long,
and it will move about like a snake,
and strike the other way.
- Jean Anouilh

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea;
a woman's weapon is her tongue.
- Hermione Gingold

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
- Thomas Paine

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

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world,
journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- Tom Stoppard

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction
that inflicts large casualties,
the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor
of a military form of government.
- Tommy Franks

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
- Ani DiFranco

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.
- Ian Rush

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
- Alfred Whitney Griswold

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm,
imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon.
I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
- Joshua Lederberg

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people:
it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
- Simon Wiesenthal

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon,
and by de-legitimizing...
meaning trying to develop a different system of security
that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.
- Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not,
at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with
every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies

The coward's weapon, poison.
- John Fletcher

Knowledge is a weapon.
I intend to be formidably armed.
- Terry Goodkind

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
- Molly Ivins

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s
and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous,
and even conducive to accidental war.
- Herman Kahn

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