Weapons Quotes - Page 30

• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, War, Home

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Interesting, Soul

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• People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

  George Orwell

  Life, Death, War

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, War, Soul

  Speech at Amherst College, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963, in New York Times 27 Oct. 1963, p. 87

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• Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

  Joyce Meyer

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2012

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

  Calista Flockhart

  World, Way, Underestimate

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• Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

  Lionel Trilling

  Humor, Littles, Revolution

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• As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

  Siraj Wahhaj

  Long, Leader, Islam

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• You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

  Siraj Wahhaj

  Islam, Use, Get Involved

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• 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

  Nuclear, World, Ants

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

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

  Bert Holldobler

  Nuclear, World, Ants

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

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• Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.

  Alex Scarrow

  Children, Powerful, Atoms

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• In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds him attractive. I’m sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I’d be reaching for a weapon—not admiring the view.

  Kristin Nelson

  Sorry, Men, Views

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• Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

  Harrison Ford

  Self, Political, Atrocities

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• Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Israel, Use, Hamas

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014

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• Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though

  Arlo Guthrie

  Running, Country, Wall

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• One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

  Will Ferrell

  Jobs, Mass Destruction, Challenges

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• Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons.
  
  We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that.
  
  There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iran

  "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2003.

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• 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

  Military, White, Long

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", 1971.

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• I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Atmosphere

  "Candidates' gun control positions may figure in Pa. vote" by Mike Wereschagin and David M. Brown, triblive.com. April 2, 2008.

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• The only weapon I've got is comedy

  Mel Brooks

  Comedy

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• I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused

  Scott Bakula

  Agreement, Space, Wish

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• Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Trying, World

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• I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Iron, Needs

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• When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

  Lucy Liu

  Hurt, Hands, Kind

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