Weapons Quotes - Page 39

• People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

  Joy Kogawa

  People, Suffering, Use

  Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books

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• China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

  Fred Thompson

  Mass Destruction, Rogues, World

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• Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides the evidence in his book Secret Weapon. Every American needs to understand how our financial markets have been manipulated by people who want to destroy the nation and how they can do even greater damage in the future. This book is a critical read for everyone.

  William G. Boykin

  Book, Years, America

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• The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, War, Tools

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• I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

  Scott Ritter

  War, Inspectors

  Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.

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• I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their nuclear weaponization program.

  Scott Ritter

  Thinking, Iraq, Long

  "Even if Iraq managed to hide these weapons, what they are now hiding is harmless goo". Interview with William Rivers Pitt, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2002.

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• People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Believe, People, Way

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• My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have the change to see it. I hope the guerrilla understands that the time has come to leave this 50-year confrontation behind; that the time has come to change from bullets to votes, from weapons to argumentations; that the time has come for them to continue their struggle, but within democracy.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Children, Struggle

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• Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Spiritual, Tired, Effort

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.249, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

  Georg Buchner

  Republic, Virtue, Terror

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future. I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Fighting, Voice, Evil

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• The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

  Ardant du Picq

  Reality, Men, Soldier

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• Imagination is the one weapon against reality.

  Jules de Gaultier

  Reality, Imagination

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• The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

  Daniel D. Polsby

  Sound, Violence, Hypothesis

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• I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, America, Algeria

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.

  Walter Bonatti

  Men, Climbing, Soul

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• CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

  Rick Bayan

  Childhood, Drug, Shrinking

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• We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

  Jalal Talabani

  Children, War, Lying

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• The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.

  Laozi

  Country, People, Taoism

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• Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

  Laozi

  Advice, Taoism, World

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• Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Tools, Way

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• Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Tools, Noble

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• Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

  Laozi

  Soldier, Taoism, Used

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• Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

  Ann Druyan

  Military, Mass Destruction, World

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• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  Hans Blix

  War, Decision, Nuclear

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