Weapon Quotes

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind

Terrorism is a weapons system, ... From time immemorial it has been the weapon of the weak against the strong. The real war on terror is about culture, ideas and perceptions as much as roadside bombs and suicide bombs.
Arnaud de Borchgrave

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties
Arthur Henderson

The role of resistance weapons has ended in the streets. They should go back into storage and they should not show up in the streets. Any weapon now in the street is a criminal weapon
Ala Husni

Above all, I regret that scientific experimentsósome of them mineóshould have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.†
Harold C. Urey

An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.

It is probable that all heavy matter possessesólatent and bound up with the structure of the atomóa similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled, what an agent it would be in shaping the world's destiny! The man who puts his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the Earth if he chose. A prescient remark on atomic energy after the discovery of radioactivity, but decades before the harnessing of nuclear fission in an atomic bomb became a reality
Frederick Soddy

The pen is mightier than the sword Ö only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp
Terry Pratchet

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny

The simple rule about weapons is that if they can be built, they will be built.
Robert X. Cringely

The sole pre-occupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon
Kahlil Gibran†

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†

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right
Ani DiFranco

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

Force is the weapon of the weak
Ammon Hennacy

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon
Carl Hiaasen

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

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

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

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

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

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins







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