Best 713 quotes in «weapons quotes» category

Surprise is the warrior's greatest weapon

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Tears aren't a girl's weapon. It's her smile.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

The coward's weapon, poison.

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

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

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

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.