Weapons Quotes - Page 35

• And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path.

  Saddam Hussein

  Beautiful, Pain, Grief

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• Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

  Khalil Gibran

  Time, Self, Stronger

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• To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.

  George S. Patton

  Successful, Winning, Men

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• We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

  George Orwell

  Air Power, Serious, Aviation

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

  Giulio Douhet

  Airplane, Independence, Excellence

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Air, Soldier

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• The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Victory, Air Power

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air Power, Arms, Aviation

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• The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

  Erich Hartmann

  Men, Sitting, Air Power

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• From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Annoyed, Enemy

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.21

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• It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

  Colin Greenwood

  Passion, Men, Domestic Violence

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• Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Vulgar

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• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Smart, Widows And Orphans

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• The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Science, Drug

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• Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

  James Agee

  Medicine, Race, Joy

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• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  Laozi

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Smart, Mass Destruction

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• I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

  P. D. James

  Struggle, Book, Wine

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.20, Vintage

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• Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Stronger, Break

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force
  is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must
  always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it
  should be for a principle not out of passion.

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali

  Passion, Eye, Fighting

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• I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think anyone really wants to play me because I have a lot of weapons and not a ton of weaknesses. My main weakness would probably be an occasional self-destruction mode. So Ill try not to touch that red button accidentally.

  Venus Williams

  Summer, Tired, Thinking

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• Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Impossible, Advantage

  "Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals".

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• Another method (of depopulation) is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Black And White, Race, Ebola

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• Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon - rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, Men, Rifles

  "The Atlanta Declaration". lneilsmith.org. September 1987.

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• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  Barry Commoner

  Issues, Environmental, Links

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