Weapons Quotes:

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

- A. E. van Vogt

source: "The Weapon Shop". "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" Magazine, December 1942.

topic: Gun, Gun Control, Weapons, Anti Gun

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

- Abdallah II

topic: Scare, Weapons, Chemicals, Chemical Weapons

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

- Abdullah Ocalan

source: "The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2013.

topic: Ideas, Weapons, Speak

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

source: "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

topic: Weapons, Sophisticated, Defeated

Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

- Adela of Normandy

topic: War, Army, Weapons, Medieval War

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Weapons, Willpower, Mein Kampf

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

- Akbar Ganji

topic: War, Weapons, Way

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

- Akio Morita

topic: Different, Weapons, Break

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

- Al Gore

topic: Iraq, Long, Weapons

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

- Alain Enthoven

topic: Peace, Weapons, Matter

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

- Alan Keyes

topic: Gun, Looks, Weapons, Banned, Assault Weapons Ban

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

- Alan King

topic: Fun, Want, Weapons

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

- Alan Sugar

topic: Nuclear, Weapons, Mass

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

- Aldrich Ames

topic: Junk, Weapons, Defeated

My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.

- Alexander Ovechkin

topic: Weapons, Shots

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Running, Tilt, Weapons, Discreet

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

- Alexander Suvorov

source: "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.

topic: Fighting, Enemy, Weapons, Military Leadership

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Discovery, Weapons, Facts, Abstraction

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

topic: Ideas, Weapons, Virtue

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

- Alice Miller

source: Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.74, Basic Books

topic: Disrespect, Weapons, Weak

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

- Ally Carter

source: Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion

topic: Memories, Use, Weapons

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

- Alva Myrdal

source: Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

topic: Weapons, Firsts, Steps, Disarmament, Freezing

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

- Alva Myrdal

topic: Learning, Nuclear, Weapons

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: War, Men, Weapons

Force is the weapon of the weak.

- Ammon Hennacy

topic: Peace, War, Weapons

Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York...

- Andrew Cuomo

source: "Glenn Beck blasts Gov. Cuomo's remark against conservatives". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2014.

topic: New York, Gay, Weapons, Right To Life, Anti Gay

Let love be your perfect weapon.

- Andy Biersack

topic: Love Is, Perfect, Weapons

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

- Andy Roddick

topic: Thinking, Weapons, Kind

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

- Angelique Kidjo

topic: Heart, Brain, Weapons, Connecting

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Peace, Sex, Weapons

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Military, World, Weapons, Military Industrial Complex

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, it was necessary to find other weapons.

- Anne Desclos

topic: Kinky, Weapons, Young

It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

- Anthony Swofford

topic: War, Use, Weapons

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons...

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Believe, Flower, Weapons, I Don't Believe You

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

topic: Fighting, Weapons, Spirit

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

- Ari Fleischer

source: "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. August 31, 2010.

topic: War, Iraq, Weapons, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Wmds In Iraq

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

- Ari Fleischer

source: "State of Denial". Book by Bob Woodward, October 2, 2006.

topic: Iraq, Facts, Weapons, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Wmds In Iraq

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

- Ari Fleischer

topic: Iraq, Weapons, Duration, Wmds In Iraq, Biological Weapons

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Numbers, Democracy, Weapons, Large Numbers, American Democracy

Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Mistake, Weapons, Nuclear, Nuclear Bomb

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Dinosaurs, Weapons, Computer, Changing Environment

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: History, Weapons, Honest

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Believe, Nuclear, Weapons

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

- Assata Shakur

topic: Needs, Weapons, Construction

I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

- Attila the Stockbroker

topic: Team, Kingdoms, Weapons, Inspectors, United Kingdom

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

- Augusto Boal

source: Augusto Boal (2000). “Theater of the Oppressed”, p.122, Pluto Press

topic: People, Acting, Weapons

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

- Augusto Boal

topic: Theatre, Weapons, Reason

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Mind, World, Weapons, Unarmed

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

- Banksy

topic: Art, Wall, Weapons, Street Art, Wall And Piece

Weapons of war have no place on our streets

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Weapons, Streets

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Soldier, Weapons

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

- Barney Frank

topic: Powerful, Politics, Weapons

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

- Bayard Rustin

topic: Needs, Body, Weapons

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Israel, Would Be, Weapons

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Humanity, Nuclear, Weapons, Islamists

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

- Bernard C. Parks

source: "LAPD Chief Bernard Parks Discusses Loss of Granddaughter, Police Scandal". "Both Sides" with Jesse Jackson, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2000.

topic: Gun, Weapons, United States

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

- Bernard Lown

topic: Order, Long, Weapons, Rationalize

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

- Bernard Lown

topic: Evil, Nuclear, Weapons

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

- Bert Holldobler

source: Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

topic: Nuclear, World, Weapons, Territorial

If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

- Bert Holldobler

topic: Weapons, Ants, Nuclear

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

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Book, Men, Weapons, Hungry Man

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Ideas, Humanity, Weapons

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: War, Weapons, Flaws

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Men, Weapons, Dribble, Best Basketball

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

- Brian May

topic: Guitar, Weapons, Shields

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

- Bruce Hoffman

topic: Suicide, Perception, Weapons

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

- Bruce Kent

topic: Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

- Bruce Schneier

topic: Airports, Weapons, Prison

William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"...."Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." ...."And what now is your defense?" Colour returned to Billy's face, and his jaw tightened. His voice surged with emotion. "Faith...faith is my shield.

- Bryan Davis

topic: Voice, Weapons, Shields

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

- C. G. Weeramantry

topic: Nuclear, Weapons, Creation

Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.

- Cai Guo-Qiang

topic: Book, Weapons, Victim

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

- Calista Flockhart

topic: People, World, Weapons, Underestimate Me

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

- Calista Flockhart

topic: Way, World, Weapons

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

- Carl Hiaasen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Humor, Weapons, Incredibles

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

- Caroline B. Cooney

topic: Believe, People, Weapons

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

- Carolyn Hart

source: Carolyn Hart (2009). “Dead Man's Island”, p.57, Crimeline

topic: Looks, Weapons, Persons

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

- Carrie Chapman Catt

topic: Prayer, Defense, Weapons, Offense And Defense

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Hurt, Weapons, Killing, City Of Glass

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

- Celine Kiernan

topic: Men, Weapons, Males

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

- Cesar Chavez

source: Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.71, Texas A&M University Press

topic: Powerful, Sacrifice, Weapons

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Vampire, May, Weapons

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

- Charles Bass

topic: Labs, Weapons, Administration, Counterintelligence

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Power, Silence, Weapons, Ultimate Power

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Gun, Preparation, Weapons, Brady

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Science, Weapons, Today, Regimentation, Vicious Cycles

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

- Charles Rangel

topic: September 11, Hussein, Weapons, September 11th

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

- Cher

topic: Weapons, Sometimes, Wounds

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

- Chester W. Nimitz

source: "ARMED FORCES: According to Plan", content.time.com. March 13, 1950.

topic: Military, Weapons, Economy

My weapon is literature

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Literature, Weapons

To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.

- Chris Bradford

topic: Mean, Victory, Weapons

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.

- Chris Kyle

topic: Numbers, Weapons, Way

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

- Christian Louboutin

topic: Men, Weapons, Feminine, Stilettos, Fashion Designer

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Weapons, Causes, Logic, Good Causes

No weapon formed against you will prosper. But make no mistake, the weapon will be formed.

- Christine Caine

source: FaceBook post by Christine Caine from May 23, 2013

topic: Mistake, Weapons

Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.

- Christofer Drew

source: Twitter post from Nov 09, 2014

topic: Love Is, Generations, Weapons

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

- Christopher Dodd

topic: Nuclear, Politics, Weapons

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

- Chuck Horner

topic: Nuclear, Want, Weapons, Nuclear Missiles

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

- Clara Zetkin

topic: War, Fighting, Weapons, Proletariat, Current Situation

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

- Claud Cockburn

source: Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

topic: Hands, Weapons, Newspapers

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

- Connie Brockway

topic: Fear, Choices, Weapons

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

- Conor Oberst

topic: Bombs, Weapons, Imperfect, Boycott

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

- Curt Siodmak

topic: Earth, Weapons, Weak

Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

- Cynthia McKinney

topic: Silence, Weapons, Censorship

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

- Daniel D. Polsby

topic: Sound, Weapons, Violence, Public Policy

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

- Daniel Fried

topic: Iran, World, Weapons

The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

- Daniel Seligman

topic: Political, Feminism, Weapons, San Antonio, Antonio

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

- Dave Barry

topic: Weed, Weapons, Way

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development

- David Cortright

topic: Nuclear, Development, Weapons, Nuclear Disarmament, Disarmament

Loyalty is the Tory's secret weapon.

- David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

topic: Loyalty, Secret, Weapons

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

- David Mitchell

topic: Inspirational, Women, Weapons

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

- David Oyelowo

source: "David Oyelowo creates a tortured soul in HBO's 'Nightingale'". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 28, 2015.

topic: Excellence, Prejudice, Weapons

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

- David R. Ellis

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Car, Cab Drivers, Weapons, Cab, Taxi Cabs

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons...

- David Seabury

topic: Powerful, Weapons, Conviction, Powerful Weapons

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

- David Titley

source: "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Good Day, Nuclear, Weapons, Instability

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Answers, Weapons, Murder, Plumber, Wrenches

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

- Dennis Kucinich

source: "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.

topic: Home, Health, Weapons, Joblessness, Quality Health Care

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

- Dennis Kucinich

topic: Lying, Weapons, Destruction

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

- Dianne Feinstein

topic: Weapons, Human Nature, Realizing

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Issues, Weapons, Chemicals, Chemical Weapons

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Battle, Weapons, Way

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee

topic: Doubt, Hussein, Weapons, Wmds In Iraq, Biological Weapons

We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Country, Iraq, Weapons

The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.

- Donald Trump

topic: Nuclear, World, Weapons, Weaponry

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

- Dorothy E. Denning

topic: Levels, May, Weapons

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

- Douglas J. Feith

topic: Weapons, Destruction, Mass

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Military, Weapons, Said, Soldiers At War, Inspirational Military

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

topic: Important, Target, Weapons, Pulling The Trigger

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

- E. P. Thompson

topic: Weapons, Sides, Range

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

- E. T. A. Hoffmann

topic: Boys, Play, Weapons

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

- Earl Butz

topic: Tools, Weapons

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Support, Weapons, Comedy

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

- Edna Ferber

source: Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins

topic: Garden, Green, Weapons, Jade, Red And Green

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Competition, Weapons, Chosen

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Years, Hussein, Weapons, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Gulf War

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

- Edward Teller

topic: Freedom, Democracy, Weapons, Voting And Democracy

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

- Ehud Olmert

topic: Israel, Iran, Weapons

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Israel, America, Weapons

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

- Elliot Perlman

topic: Use, Weapons, Way

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

- Emo Philips

topic: Government, Nuclear, Weapons

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

- Erich Hartmann

topic: Men, Sitting, Weapons

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Peace, War, Weapons

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ...

- Fanny Lewald

source: Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press

topic: Arms, Weapons, Heavy, Windmills

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

- Fela Kuti

topic: Weapons

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

- Fela Kuti

topic: Weapons, Giver, Music Is

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

- Fela Kuti

topic: Weapons, Music Is

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

- Fidel Castro

topic: Ignorance, Weapons, Poverty

Ideas do not need weapons.

- Fidel Castro

source: Fidel Castro's speech at the Conference on Foreign Debt in Latin America and the Caribbean, August 3, 1985.

topic: Ideas, Needs, Weapons

Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

- Fidel Castro

topic: Ideas, Needs, Weapons

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

- Francine Rivers

source: Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.292, Lion Fiction

topic: Letting Go, Weapons, Don't Let Go, Redeeming Love, Lifelines

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

- Frank Herbert

topic: Government, Weapons

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

- Frank Miller

topic: Weapons

A gun is a liar's weapon

- Frank Miller

topic: Liars, Gun, Weapons

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

topic: Solitude, Weapons, Way

Conditioning is my best weapon.

- Frank Shamrock

topic: Weapons, Conditioning

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Choices, Weapons, Belief

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

- Fred Brooks

topic: Data, Battle, Weapons, Data Structures

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

- Fred Thompson

topic: World, Weapons, Rogues

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

source: "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

topic: Weapons, Reap

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: War, Enemy, Weapons

Tears aren't a girl's weapon. It's her smile.

- Gackt

topic: Girl, Tears, Weapons, Her Smile

We're not looking at banning all weapons.

- Gary Ackerman

topic: Weapons

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

- Gelett Burgess

topic: Women, Son, Weapons

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that,

- Gene Sharp

topic: Fighting, Weapons, Violence

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Mind, Weapons, Realizing, Your Strong

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength

- Georg Buchner

topic: Republic, Weapons, Virtue

Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

- George Meyer

topic: Eggs, Coward, Weapons

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

- George Orwell

topic: Weapons, Serious, Airpower

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

topic: Technology, Way, Weapons, Dissemination, Spectre

The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

- George W. Bush

topic: America, Weapons, Destruction

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

- George Wald

topic: Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

- George Wald

source: "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.

topic: Balance, Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

- Georgy Zhukov

source: "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.

topic: Use, Weapons, Possibility, Atomic Weapons

Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.

- Gichin Funakoshi

topic: Hands, Weapons, Technique

There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

- Gilles Deleuze

source: "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze in October, Volume 59 (pp. 3-7), www.jstor.org. Winter 1992.

topic: Needs, Looks, Weapons

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

- Girolamo Savonarola

topic: World, Weapons, Glory

We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right.

- Gisela Kallenbach

topic: Gun, Europe, Weapons

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

- Golda Meir

topic: Struggle, Secret, Weapons

It took us 6 years to get the right weapons to fight BokoHaram...

- Goodluck Jonathan

topic: Fighting, Years, Weapons

Photography was my choice of weapons.

- Gordon Parks

topic: Photography, Choices, Weapons

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

- Gordon Parks

topic: Racism, Cameras, Weapons, Against Racism

Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

- Gosho Aoyama

topic: Knives, Use, Weapons, Wrong Way, Meitantei Conan

Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

- Gottfried Helnwein

source: Interview with Marc Kayser, Quest, Berlin, March 2004.

topic: Art, Weapons, Strikes, Strike Back

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again...

- Graham Chapman

topic: Two, Weapons, Surprise, Inquisition, Spanish Inquisition

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

- Greg Proops

topic: Iraq, Growth, Weapons

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

- Guy Forget

topic: Winning, Guy, Weapons

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Race, Civilization, Weapons

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Men, Temptation, Weapons

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

- Halliwell Hobbes

topic: Funny Inspirational, Choices, Weapons

I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

- Hans Bethe

source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

topic: Country, Creating, Weapons, Nuclear Disarmament, Armament

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

- Hans Blix

topic: United States, Dry, Weapons, Anthrax, Biological Weapons

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

- Hans Blix

topic: Military, People, Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Biological Warfare

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Kids, Your Side, Weapons, War Movie, Star Wars Movie

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

- Harry Bridges

topic: Fighting, Political, Weapons, Political Action

We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.

- Hassan Nasrallah

topic: Hands, Trying, Weapons

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.

- Hassan Rouhani

source: "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

topic: Religious, Iran, Weapons, Standpoint

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

- Heinz Guderian

topic: Gun, Tanks, Weapons

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

- Helen Hunt

topic: Sorrow, Weapons, Faces

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

topic: Weapons, Faces, Now And Then

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Race, Nuclear, Weapons