Best 713 quotes in «weapons quotes» category

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

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.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them.

There's no question but that a nuclear Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran is unacceptable to America. It presents a threat not only to our friends but ultimately a threat to us to have Iran have nuclear material, nuclear weapons that could be used against us or used to be threatening to us.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

There's vulnerability - so I have to make sure the audience is certain that I know what I'm doing. There's vulnerability there because my heart is open, but at the same time I definitely have a lot of "weapons" at my disposal. I have all the language, I have all of the moment - I have all of that to spar with somebody, to take anything on.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.