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• I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?

  Eoin Colfer

  Knives, Two, Wire

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• An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Men, Regularity

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• Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Love Is, World

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.150, Beacon Press

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• A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

  Frank O'Hara

  Men, Weapons, Causes

  "The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara".

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• Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Mean, Feelings

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

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• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  David Gell

  Warrior, Gun, Hands

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• Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

  Che Guevara

  Brother, Fighting, Order

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Rely Upon

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.120, Rajpal & Sons

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• Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Animal, Men

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• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Government, Talking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

  Mickey Kaus

  Character, Learned Person, Ignorant

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• Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Opportunity, Destiny, Men

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• God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

  Ted Nugent

  Precious Gifts, Protect, Gifts Of Life

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• The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?

  Thomas Sowell

  Book, Hypocrite, Ghetto

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• [During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Children, Men, Liberty

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• ... the unarmed power of naked truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Truth, Naked

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• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.

  Mel Duncan

  War, Alternatives, May

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• The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Second Amendment, Defenseless

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• The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Force, Ahimsa, Superiors

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Fighting, Men

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.327, Macmillan

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• I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

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• All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Clarity, Prophet

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• Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Art, Moving, Fate

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• What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Rome, Traitor, Built

  "In Rufinum". II. 52. Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 677, 1922.

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