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• It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.

  Veronica Roth

  Labs, Realizing, Caleb

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• Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hero, Coward, Sake

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• Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Hands, Long

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1227, Delphi Classics

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• Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracy, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, History, Prejudice

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.340

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• I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Battle, Helping

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Making Love, Force

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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• I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
  My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
  I will greet this day with love in my heart.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Heart, Making Love

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 9: "The Scroll Marked II," p. 58, 1968.

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• Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, Differences

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• Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

  Alexander Cockburn

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

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

  Alain Enthoven

  Peace, Matter, Anti War

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• Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Truth, Survival, United States

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• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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• The only weapon I had was my dancing.
  With that I fought like a general without an army.
  If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
  it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.

  Maya Plisetskaya

  Dance, Struggle, Army

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• Forgiveness is the greatest weapon that God has given us.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Commitment, Opportunity

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• Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Race, Tasks, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Art, Strong

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• I'm just a weapon of the god.

  Janet Morris

  Honesty, Humility, Modesty

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• We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Law, Immigration

  Transcript: Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on 'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2007.

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• The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

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• It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!

  Medea Benjamin

  Kings, War, Focus

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