Quotes on Weapons

To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.

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

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

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

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

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

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

The only weapon we have is comedy.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.