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Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real

Phillip E. Johnson

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Frantz Fanon

His foe was folly and his weapon wit

Anthony Hope

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Aaron Klug

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

Simon Wiesenthal

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk

Joshua Lederberg

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.

Don Nickles

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

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

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

Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

Herbert Simon

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony

Lionel Trilling

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way

Jean Anouilh

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power

Charles de Gaulle

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

Sidney Poitier

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence

Mohamed ElBaradei

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face

Jacques Chirac

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

Harry S. Truman

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people

George Dennison Prentice

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

T. E. Lawrence

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Georges Bidault

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun

George Orwell

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