Weapon Quotes

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

James Matthew Barrie

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill

Thomas Alva Edison

As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger

Fidel Castro

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow

Charles A. Lindbergh

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

Albert Einstein

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough

Martin Amis

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

George Bernard Shaw

Unfortunately, there are a lot of weapons kids have access to. It wasn't any intent -- it was an accident

Alfonza Whitaker

The printout doesn't lie, ... The printout shows how many times the weapon was discharged. And the last discharge of the Teaser corresponds very closely with the time he stopped breathing

Brian Spears

We have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice

Martin Luther King Jr†

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.†

Lois McMaster Bujold

It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.†

Richard Jordan Gatling

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them

†Bernard M(annes) Baruch