Conventional Weapons Quotes

#1. No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

Margo Kingston

#2. Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Ehud Olmert

#3. Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

Margaret Thatcher

#4. If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

Mao Zedong

#5. Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.

Jody Williams

#6. The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.

Helmut Schmidt

#7. Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

Joseph Rotblat

#8. If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.

Rand Paul

#9. I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

Daniel Pinkwater

#10. Was it love or cardiac arrest? Fucking hell, did people actually like this feeling? It was horrible!

Melanie Harlow

#11. In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

#12. He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

Colin Powell

#13. Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

Daniel Keyes

#14. The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

Albert Einstein

#16. Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his Notebooks: It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places in which ... you may find really marvelous ideas.

C. G. Jung

#17. The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Thomas Merton

#18. A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

William Penn

#19. Harry Truman, after all, in conjunction with Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, radically cut back American arms following the end of the Second World War. Johnson himself wished to dismantle the Marine Corps and felt nuclear weapons had made all such conventional arms unnecessary.

Victor Davis Hanson

#20. Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

Roger Zelazny

#21. Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

Richard Engel