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
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
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
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
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun
George Orwell
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
Terry Pratchett
ìA sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
Seneca