Weapons Quotes - Page 25

• When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Clever, War

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• Mines are equal opportunity weapons.

  Saddam Hussein

  Military, Army, Opportunity

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• The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

  Linus Pauling

  Acceptance, Ideas, World

  "No More War!" by Linus Paulin, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (p. 209), 1962.

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• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Years, Two

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

  Adela of Normandy

  War, Army, Salvation

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

  Cesar Chavez

  Powerful, Struggle, Justice

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.207, Penguin

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• We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Law, Lawyer

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• Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Revolution, Sides, Rebellion

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Tilt, Satire

  "The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope".

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• Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, War, Eye

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

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• That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

  Steve Nash

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

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• Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Two, Enemy

  During a panel discussion in ABC News Viewpoint following the TV movie "The Day After", November 20, 1983.

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

  George Wald

  Science, Balance, Nuclear

  "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.

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• Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Cat, Animal, Numbers

  Lloyd Alexander (1956). “My Five Tigers”

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• Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Important, Problem

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.300, Pan Macmillan

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• The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

  Confucius

  Order, Skills, Together

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• What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Energy, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

  John Jay Chapman

  Intellect, Humans, Quotations

  John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

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• If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

  Pope John Paul II

  Brother, Wish, Ifs

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• 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

  Military, Technology, Survival

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• 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

  Ideas, Humanity, Sparks

  Speech in Birmingham, England encouraging civil disobedience in support of nuclear disarmament, April 15, 1961.

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