Best 713 quotes in «weapons quotes» category

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it's rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it's altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.

Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

I am a weapon of massive consumption

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

Ideas do not need weapons.

I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.

I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.