Weapon Quotes

• A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

  

  Homer
  • Gun
  • Weapon
  • Alligator

• 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 room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Civilization
  • Demonstrate
  • Refrigerator

• Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that's her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn't necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That's art, but there's more to it than that. As long as you're pouring your heart and soul into what you're doing, that's the weapon.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • Heart
  • Art
  • To Do

• No weapon is sharper than will.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Weapon
  • Sharper

• Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

  

  Saul Alinsky
  • Weapon
  • Ridicule
  • Potent

• Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Injury
  • Weapon
  • Military Activity

• I knew the instant Margaret spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Fail
  • Intended
  • Margaret

• Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Mankind
  • Weapon

• “Force is the weapon of the weak.”

  

  Ammon Hennacy
  • Force
  • Weak
  • Weapon

• What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Weapon
  • Accurate
  • Snipers

• Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.

  

  Alice Borchardt
  • Desire
  • Weapon
  • Arrayed

• Possessing a weapon has made me bashful. Tears appreciate in this economy of pleasure. The ether of data engulfs the capitol. Possessing a weapon has made me forgetful. My oboe tars her cenotaph. The surface is in process. Coruscant skinks emerge in force. The moon spits on a copse of spruce. Plausible opposites stir in the brush. Jupiter spins in its ruts. The wind extends its every courtesy. I have never been here. Understand? You have never seen me.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Wind
  • Force
  • Economy

• Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Weapon
  • Distractrion

• No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Crime
  • Figures
  • Conclusion

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

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Theater
  • Weapon
  • Wield

• No one promised life would be easy or that the game wouldn't change without warning. There you are, all ready to pass Go and collect two hundred dollars, and suddenly Colonel Mustard is trapped in the conservatory, ranting and raving and waving a wrench, and no one knows what exactly a conservatory is or why anyone thought a wrench - of all things - would be a good murder weapon, or what branch of the military Colonel Mustard even served in! Has anyone seen his credentials?

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Money
  • Game
  • Change

• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Conscience
  • Deserve
  • Weapon

• The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

  

  Bassam Tibi
  • Weapon
  • Accusation
  • Insensitivity

• A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Bad
  • Woman
  • Feel

• Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

  

  Genesis P-Orridge
  • Pleasure
  • Use
  • Wisely

• The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Interesting
  • Killing
  • Troops

• My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • First
  • Anger
  • Later

• The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hands
  • Weapon
  • Protest

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