Weapon Quotes - page 4

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)
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon. View quote
Joseph Stalin
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. View quote
Enrico Fermi
Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. View quote
Enrico Fermi
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures. View quote
Fred Brooks
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen to own guns for sporting, hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon. View quote
Ronald Reagan
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. View quote
Ronald Reagan
An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. (Mario Benedetti)
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. View quote
Melina Marchetta
...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind. View quote
Melina Marchetta
A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?” I yelled. Horus didn't answer. View quote
Rick Riordan
Our secret weapon, Khione! We're not just a bunch of demigods. We're a team. View quote
Rick Riordan
She stared at me. "Fly,; ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?" "Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that. View quote
Rick Riordan
Sleep is a weapon! View quote
Robert Ludlum
The mind is the greatest weapon in the world. View quote
Roy Conli
Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
So is there any part of you that's not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
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. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one. View quote
Deb Caletti
Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either. View quote
David Levithan