Weapon Quotes - page 21

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior. (Steve Biko)
In my case, using what politely might be called "advocacy journalism," I've used reporting as a weapon to affect political situations that bear down on my environment. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
If I could be a vegetable, I'd be a pumpkin. It's realistically the only vegetable you can use as a weapon, or in any manner of defense. View quote
Chris Walla
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. View quote
Muriel Spark
And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch." "I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered. View quote
Cassandra Clare
What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?” "A piano.” "Simon.” "A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon? View quote
Cassandra Clare
Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. "God. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. View quote
Alice Miller (psychologist)
When the first flint, the first shell, was shaped into a weapon, that action shaped man. As he molded and complicated his tools, so they molded and complicated him. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Putin firmly opposes U.S. policy toward Syria and the threat of force against Iran. But his opposition stems neither from anti-Americanism nor a desire to back the Iranian mullahs or Syria's Bashar al-Assad in their struggles with the West. It is rooted in his obsession with stability. Helping Tehran secure a nuclear weapon and keeping Assad in Damascus are not Putin's goals. But an Israeli or U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear sites, and NATO or the United Nations intervening in Syria to forcibly remove Assad, would increase global volatility. (Fiona Hill (presidential advisor))
Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. View quote
Eddie Izzard
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon. View quote
Mandy Patinkin
The shotgun is the most immoral and reprehensible weapon to ever be deployed. We fight this war with the hopes of vanquishing these weapons from the continent. View quote
Wilhelm II of Germany
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. View quote
Taylor Swift
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. View quote
Dean Koontz
A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force nor doors nor locks Can shield you,-'t is the ballot-box. View quote
John Pierpont
We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true. View quote
Ellen G. White
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war. View quote
B. H. Liddell Hart
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ. View quote
B. H. Liddell Hart
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. (John R. Bolton)
Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Henry L. Stimson
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. View quote
Henry Rollins
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. View quote
Barry Goldwater