Famous Quotes & Sayings

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

George Orwell

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Brian Dawkins

They have some weapons over there, ... We're going to have to come and play. And I think we know that.

Muriel Spark

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Jim Butcher

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

Jim Butcher

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Jack O'Neill

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

George Herbert

There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.

Georg Buchner

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength

Joseph Rotblat

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

Lily Allen

I am a weapon of massive consumption

Marian Wright Edelman

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

Publilius Syrus

He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

Nelson Mandela

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Rachel Nichols

I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

Noam Chomsky

Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

Noam Chomsky

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

John Ashcroft

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate

Jodi Picoult

There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

Margaret Thatcher

Obsolete weapons do not deter.

Lakhdar Brahimi

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced and remain convinced now that, after Hitler , Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

Noam Chomsky

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Paul Newman

Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission — that's not bad politics, that's robbery.

Marya Mannes

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Michael Nutter

There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Frank Miller

I take his weapons away from him. Both of them.

Kellan Lutz

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Theodore Parker

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

Manly Hall

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

James M. Barrie

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.