Gunpowder Quotes

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.