Weapon Quotes

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

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire"

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that"

George Wald, Scientist

"His foe was folly and his weapon wit"

Anthony Hope, Writer

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that"

John McCain, Politician

"Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised"

Calista Flockhart, Actress

"Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect"

Lou Brock, Athlete

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks"

John Yoo, Educator

"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"Judicious absence is a weapon"

Charles Reade, Novelist

"I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough"

Dana Hill, Actress

"We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies"

Andy Roddick, Athlete

"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"

Harry S. Truman, President

"Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin"

Alexander Cockburn, Lawyer

"Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon"

Carl Hiaasen, Writer

"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, Novelist

"You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal"

John Sununu, Politician

"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region"

Liam Fox, Politician

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