Weapon Quotes: Powerful Words on Tools of War

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"A laugh is a terrible weapon"

Kate O'Brien, Novelist

"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind"

Brian May, Musician

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"The press is our chief ideological weapon"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings"

Alice Duer Miller, Poet

"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter"

Mark Twain, Author

"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. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon"

Martin Luther, Professor

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another"

William James, Philosopher

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women"

Maria Callas, Musician

"The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act"

Barack Obama, President

"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

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