Weapons Quotes - Page 38

• Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

  Herman Kahn

  Nuclear, Use, Moral

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Men, Naked

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.

  Isaac Asimov

  Emotional, World Government, Law

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• The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Sea, Pirate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
  This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind.

  Dolours Price

  Past, Long, Mind

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• Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

  Michel Foucault

  Law, People, Important

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• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fighting, Blessing, Past

  "The Jewish Writings".

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• I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Names, Doing Good, Good Things

  "From Russia With Love" by Tony Long, www.wired.com. September 20, 2004.

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• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

  Fela Kuti

  Music Is

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• A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

  Homer

  Gun, Knives, Tools

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• Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

  Jim Jeffords

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Order

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• Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

  Mitt Romney

  Assault Weapons, Massachusetts, Assault

  "Mitt Romney,the gun-control candidate" by Alex Coppelman, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I supported the assault weapon ban.

  Mitt Romney

  Assault Weapons, Bans, Assault

  'Meet The Press' with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2007.

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• He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

  Colin Powell

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Significant

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• Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Hurt, Moving

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• I think there are some mass destruction capabilities that are still inside Iraq. I think there's some weapons that have been shipped over the border to Syria. But I don't think we're going to find that their capabilities provided the imminent threat that many feared in this country. So I think it's going to be a tough search, but I think there's stuff there.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001 He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, Wmd, Long

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• My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.

  Joy Harjo

  Powerful, Father, Weather

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• Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

  Jeff Grubb

  Nails, Hammers, Looks

  Jeff Grubb, Gabriel Mesta, Tracy Hickman, Micky Neilson (2007). “The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Fasting, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.488, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Sophisticated, Defeated, Superpower

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide, Revenge, Blood

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• Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fighting, Self, Soul

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Boys, Play, Should

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