Weapon Quotes

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.