Top 33 Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes
#1. I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
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#2. We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
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#3. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.
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#4. Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
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#5. People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
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#6. My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?
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#7. I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
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#9. The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
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#10. I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.
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#13. I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
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#14. I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.
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#17. My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.
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#18. I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.
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#20. Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.
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#23. I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
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#24. When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.
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#25. The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
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#26. Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.
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#28. I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.
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#29. It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.
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#30. I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.
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#31. For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.
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#32. Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.
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