Weapons Quotes - Page 33

• From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

  Eduardo Galeano

  Views, Growth, Criminals

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• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mean, Responsibility

  Address to the symposium "The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era" at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, November 17, 1946.

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• Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

  Bill Maher

  Mass Destruction, Order, Oil

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 24, 2006.

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• [It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

  Walter Raleigh

  Mean, Tyrants, People

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• Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Survival, Church

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• Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

  Dave Barry

  Weed, Doe, Nuclear

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Differences

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• Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Inspirational, War, Guilt

  Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

  Achmat Dangor

  Art, Writing, Fighting

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• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, Dying, Assassins

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• Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Hero, Mean

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Well, my message is, is that if you harbor a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you develop weapons of mass destruction that you want to terrorize the world, you'll be held accountable. . . . If anybody harbors a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they fund a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they're terrorists. I mean, I can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world. If they develop weapons of mass destruction that will be used to terrorize nations, they will be held accountable.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Mass Destruction, House

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

  Jeff Cooper

  Dream, Queens, Exercise

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, War, Race

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.280, Best Books on

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• The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Gun, Men, Safety

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• Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dark, Gun, Clothes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.

  Mark Regev

  Reality, Community, Understanding

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• On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

  Benito Mussolini

  Gun, Order, Numbers

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• The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Police, Firsts

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Country, Gun, Assault Weapons

  "Top 12 Quotes About Gun Control After Newtown, Conn. Shooting" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

  Georges Bidault

  Strong, Power, Thinking

  In Observer 15 July 1962

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• They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Editors, Secret

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• Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Car, Armor

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• Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Taken, Choices

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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