Military Weapons Quotes:

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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

topic: Peace, Children, Military, Hunger And Poverty, Make Love Not War

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.259, Princeton University Press

topic: Country, Military, Insecure, Military Weapons

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Military, Causes Of War, World War 2

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, War, Mean, Military Weapons

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

topic: Funny Inspirational, Business, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Martial Arts Inspirational

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

- Ernest King

topic: Military, War, Past, Military Weapons

Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being

- Sima Qian

topic: Spring, Military, War, Military Weapons, Violence And Cruelty

Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

- William Powell

topic: Military, White, Long, Military Weapons, Good Information

Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.

- Barry Commoner

source: barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

topic: Military, Technology, Survival, Military Weapons, Modern Technology