Gun Quotes - Page 34

• Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Ideas, People

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• If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Use, Firsts, Introducing

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• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Believe, Cities, Names

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• And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

  Kurt Cobain

  Swear

  "Come as you are". Song by Kurt Cobain, 1991.

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• The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

  Irene Parlby

  Women, Voting, Battle

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• I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

  Joe Gores

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

  Joe Gores (2009). “Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon”, p.13, Vintage

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• Nothing fazes me. I'm like some kinda Space man on his way to Mars with a big gun and a whole lot of coffee.

  Rob Campbell

  Coffee, Men, Space

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• War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Two, Wire

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.88, Seven Stories Press

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• Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?

  John D. MacDonald

  Country, Passion, Knives

  "The Scarlet Ruse". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1973.

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• No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

  Clarence Darrow

  Loyalty, Together, Really Great

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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• We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

  Harold Evans

  Reading, Jazz, Online

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.

  Gaspar Noe

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Hero, Helping Others, Skills

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Problem, Immigrants

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• There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Kings, Fighting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Obviously, guns are a way to protect yourself.

  Sam Trammell

  Way, Protect, Protect Yourself

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun.

  Katey Sagal

  World, Outlaw

  Source: collider.com

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• As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Hunting, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Land, Oklahoma

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• Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

  Kabir

  Long, Design, Over You

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Kids

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• I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.

  Kinky Friedman

  Believe, Want, Weapons

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• Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

  Gary North

  Government, Promise, Special

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• Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

  Gary North

  Agency, Government, Hands

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• I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

  Chauncey Billups

  Running, Winning, Games

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