"Weapons" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Weapons"

"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free."

--- A. E. van Vogt

#Anti Gun #Pro Gun #Gun Control

"Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world."

--- Aaron Klug

#World #Struggle #Secret

"Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody."

--- Abdallah II

#Chemicals #Chemical Weapons #Weapons

"When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins."

--- Abdallah II

#War #Ammunition #Billions

"I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do."

--- Abderrahmane Sissako

#Thinking #Fighting #People

"Today, India is a nuclear weapons state."

--- Abdul Kalam

#Nuclear Weapons #Today #Weapons

"India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also."

--- Abdul Kalam

#Our Dreams #Nuclear Weapons #Dream

"We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak."

--- Abdullah Ocalan

#Weapons #Silent #Should

"At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion."

--- Abdullah Yusuf Ali

#Fighting #Preservation #Passion

"Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think."

--- Abdus Salam

#Thinking #Politician #Nuclear Weapons

"The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower."

--- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Weapons #Sophisticated #Superpower

"I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you."

--- Achmat Dangor

#Fighting #Emotion #Apartheid

"Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons."

--- Adam Hochschild

#War Of The Worlds #Spain #War

"We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region."

--- Adel al-Jubeir

#Provision #Nuclear Weapons #Order

"The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted. We had no other option - there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country. It was in possession of heavy weapons, ballistic missiles and even an air force. Should we stand by idly while this happens at our doorstep, in one of the countries in which al-Qaida has a huge presence? So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them."

--- Adel al-Jubeir

#Possession #War #Doorstep

"Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands."

--- Adela of Normandy

#Salvation #War #Weapons

"Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul."

--- Adlai Stevenson I

#Soul #Democracy #Confession

"An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both."

--- Adolf Galland

#Fighter Pilot #Excellent #Fighter

"Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system."

--- Adolf Galland

#Today #Aviation #Weapons

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."

--- Adolf Hitler

#People #Repeating History #German History

"The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Revolutionary #Dependent #Brutal

"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

#Brutal #Struggle #Force

"It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Justified #Humane #Conscience

"If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Weapons #Willpower #Nations

"People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?"

--- Adolf Hitler

#Mean #Enemy #I Can

"Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories."

--- Adrienne Mayor

#Pandora #Written History #War

"War with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons."

--- Adrienne Mayor

#War #Term #Greek

"Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess."

--- Agatha Christie

#May #Knows #Weapons

"I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there."

--- Agatha Christie

#Fighting #Accepting #Sheila

"Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose."

--- Agnes Varda

#Answers #Weapons #Loses

30 "Weapons" Quotes