Weapon Quotes

• Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Politics
  • Evolution
  • Weapon

• Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Weapon
  • Thank
  • Self-Doubt

• It's not exactly the way you want to have a team win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Team

• Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Lead
  • Philosophies
  • Supports

• The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it far more easily than he can kill other people.

  

  George Dennison Prentice
  • Kill
  • Weapon
  • Pen

• Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Weapon
  • Experienced
  • Ornaments

• As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Weapon
  • Enslaved

• We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

  

  Will Forte
  • Action
  • Inspiration
  • Solomon

• Violence is the weapon of weak, non-violence that of the strong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Weak
  • Weapon

• The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Success
  • Clay
  • Supermen

• Unfortunately, it is highly probable that a weapon went astray and hit civilian buildings.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Weapon
  • Astray
  • Civilian Buildings

• But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Glory
  • Ruin
  • Triumphs

• Smart snacking is an invaluable weapon against cravings and poor food choices. For me, this translates to three meals and two snacks a day, each containing protein, fiber, and healthy fat.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Weapon
  • Cravings
  • Snacking

• The press is our chief ideological weapon.

  

  Nikita Khrushchev
  • Press
  • Weapon
  • Ideological

• Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

  

  David Alfaro Siqueiros
  • Feelings
  • Deepest
  • Penetrates

• The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Theater
  • Weapon
  • Wield

• What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • People
  • Trust
  • Path

• Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

  

  Genesis P-Orridge
  • Pleasure
  • Use
  • Wisely

• The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Victory
  • Weapon
  • Bayonet

• I think that submissiveness can be and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

  

  Anne Desclos
  • Women
  • Weapon
  • Submissiveness

• A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Weapon
  • Sword
  • Slayer

• She's a good setter. And we have more than one weapon, so she has a variety of hitters to go to. That helps. And we've had good defensive players, so she usually gets good passes. It all works together.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Good
  • She
  • Together

• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Battle
  • Blessing

• It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.

  

  Joyce DiDonato
  • Voice
  • Weapon
  • Recording

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