Top 64 Gun Power Quotes
#1. Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.
Mao Zedong
#2. All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.
Chip Pashayan
#3. Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
Herbert Marcuse
#4. This is real power, real strength! Foolish humans, etch my name with fear! Me and, the name of this gun is <> ... <>!!
Reki Kawahara
#5. I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I'll never escape alive.
Paula Stokes
#6. I loved my wounds, not because they hurt but because they were like a gun in my pocket. They gave me a power that no one knew I had.
Supervert
#7. Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.
Helen Thomas
#8. Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
Hannah Arendt
#9. All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
Mao Zedong
#10. During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.
Mike Quigley
#11. When I came to Mogadishu ... here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.
Siad Barre
#12. Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.
Steve Ditko
#14. The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
#15. Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
Mason Cooley
#17. If words are the power of life and death, you just pointed a loaded gun at your head.
Gena Showalter
#18. The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people.
St. George Tucker
#19. I killed it, all right, just not how I expected. Its head burst into flames and then went out just as quickly, leaving behind a smoking corpse. "Behold, the awesome power of the zombie juice Super Soaker!" I waved the gun above my head in triumph.
M.J. Ware
#20. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.
Steve Stockman
#21. A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.
Iain M. Banks
#22. There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.
John Longenecker
#23. All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose
#24. The power that the world acknowledges comes out of the mouth of a gun; the power that the person of faith respects comes from the mouth of Christ.
Eugene H. Peterson
#25. The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#26. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American
Tench Coxe
#27. I hope some day we will learn to use the power of love, not the power of gun and world will see the universal peace.
Debasish Mridha
#28. If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?
Ken Wilson
#29. Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.
Mark Bowden
#30. Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
Yoshimi Ishikawa
#31. If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.
Robert Loggia
#32. The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Louisa May Alcott
#33. I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
Fidel Castro
#34. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.
Tommy Douglas
#35. The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being ...
J. G. A. Pocock
#36. As far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
Wole Soyinka
#37. The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government ... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#38. Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Jean Genet
#39. One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.
Merritt A. Edson
#40. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.
Ron Bloom
#42. Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
Benazir Bhutto
#43. Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun ...
Mao Tse-tung
#44. It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
Desmond Tutu
#46. The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#47. Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#48. And shoot, I feel the same rush of power I felt the first time I held a gun.
Veronica Roth
#49. The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. Anyone can shoot a gun but the real power comes from non-violent means.
J.C. Phillips
#51. A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.
Irving Azoff
#52. Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to
Marcus Sakey
#53. The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.
Irene Parlby
#54. There is only one way by which the nations can be brought into unity and into peace and into brotherhood. This is not through guns, nor might, nor force, but through the power of God and the love of our fellowmen that is in the hearts of this people.
Melvin J. Ballard
#55. What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#56. I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.
Malala Yousafzai
#57. No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.
Vin Suprynowicz
#58. I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#59. You're a good shot, it doesn't matter how much stopping power a gun has." "If you're a good shot," I said solemnly, raising a hand to my breast, "you're probably already using a rifle.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.
William Rawle
#61. I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military power with a ragtag group of irregulars and some squirrel guns, whereas Ronald Reagan had to defeat liberals.
Ann Coulter
#62. He wanted to kill us. With what? His evil-eye power?
Will pulled a gun out from underneath his loose shirt.
Oh, yeah, that would do it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#63. THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM
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Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
Anne Carson
#64. When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
P. J. O'Rourke
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