Gun Quotes - Page 18

• What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Real, Believe, Direct Action

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.275, SUNY Press

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• Michele Bachmann said she wants her three daughters to learn to shoot a gun. Mostly so they can put her campaign out of its misery.

  Conan O'Brien

  Daughter, Three, Campaigns

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• Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

  David Letterman

  Retirement, Gentleman, Gold

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• If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

  Harry Browne

  Hands, Law, People

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• It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mirrors, Long, Tanks

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Children, Cutting

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• The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom.

  Ann Coulter

  Mom, Lying, Advice

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• Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

  Bob Costas

  Teenage, Believe, Boys

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Home, Doors, Two

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2003). “Little House in the Big Woods”, HarperCollins

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• Im a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. Its fun, you know? Its things I wouldnt normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Fun, Real, Dirty

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• Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

  Daniela Ruah

  Hands, Empowering

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• I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

  Shanola Hampton

  Play, One Day, Cop

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• Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

  Brady Corbet

  Tests, Auditions, Kind

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• I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

  Bob Gunton

  Giving, Enemy, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

  Lydia Millet

  Rpgs, Opinion, Stills

  Lydia Millet (2014). “Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Guns arent the problem; sick people are.

  Pete Sessions

  People, Sick, Problem

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• I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

  Tim Walz

  Feet, Safety, Different

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• Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Crutches

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Hammer of God”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day”

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• The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, House

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• Guns know no policy except destruction.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Destruction, Policy, Knows

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Clubs, Morality

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Brave, Sorrow

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Sea, Earthquakes

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• I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Sorry, Heart

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