Weapons Quotes - Page 5

• Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Crazy, Gun

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 18, 2012

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• History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

  James W. Loewen

  Used

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Hate, Use

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

  Benjamin Carson

  Ukraine, Giving, Understanding

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

  Robert Greene

  Distance, Struggle, Mean

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Nuclear Disarmament, Nukes

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Giving Up, Busy

  "Candidates tackle Iraq". The debate at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

  S.M. Stirling

  War, Thinking, Hands

  S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.166, Penguin

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• Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Print, Strongest

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• Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Press Statement, Chicago, www.pbs.org. November 10, 1999.

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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

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• The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Tanks, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

  Howard Berman

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iran

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• Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

  Madeleine Albright

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Long

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• Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Reality, Epidemics

  "President Obama's strategy against ISIS remains unclear". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2014.

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• There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them.

  Peter Singer

  May, Etc, Cases

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.

  Nikki Haley

  War, Believe, Issues

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood that they have more and more weapons, and the acceleration of the testing of ballistic missiles in very, very aggressive ways towards Japan.

  Michael Leiter

  Japan, Korea, Nuclear

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that it works. When you go at it with a moral hammer, it's really, really bad. It's so bad you wouldn't believe it because you don't accomplish anything. I think the one thing terrorists themselves are vulnerable to is mockery. It's an excellent weapon.

  Lionel Shriver

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

  Audra McDonald

  Children, War, Thinking

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• Most of the population in America is disenfranchised. It doesn't matter what they think. Just look at the passionate rhetoric about how we can't stand by when a country uses weapons to kill innocent civilians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Should Have, Stories

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.

  Bette Ford

  Reading, Fighting, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Weapons are less harmful than words.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.

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• What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.

  David Graeber

  Loyalty, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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