Weapon Quotes

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Judicious absence is a weapon.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.