Top 100 Weapon Quotes
#1. The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Georg Buchner
#2. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell
#3. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.
Alan Dean Foster
#4. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.
Nelson DeMille
#5. We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made"
"Oh ... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.
Megan Whalen Turner
#6. If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, there wouldn't be a Holocaust.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#7. The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.
Elana Dykewomon
#8. An unused weapon is a danger to its owner, as much as to others.
Tessa Gratton
#9. Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.
Vaddey Ratner
#10. Wisdom is a weapon, knowledge is the armor, and ignorance the enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].
Billy Graham
#12. And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon.
Caroline B. Cooney
#13. Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon
and falsehood, which is her armor.
Paul Valery
#14. I learnt that no matter what names they give you, nothing applies until you wish it to. No insult, no barb yours to bear unless you want it to. Use it, if you want. Make it into a weapon and let it boomerang back to those who uttered it. Just don't let it overpower your life.
Sweety Shinde
#15. Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
Yasmin Mogahed
#16. You don't need a weapon to protect yourself.
Bill Maher
#18. What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?
Charles Frazier
#19. Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.
Kavita Kane
#20. The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight ... I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Clint Smith
#21. We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Dennis Kucinich
#22. Even a bucket can be a weapon if it's wielded with malicious intent.
Jodi Taylor
#23. When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#24. My smile has become my calling card. It is, after all, the most potent weapon I possess.
Andy Andrews
#25. Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
Joanne Harris
#26. My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.
Sandra Cisneros
#27. As a general thing anyone who is not your friend will advise neutrality while anyone who is your friend will ask you to join him, weapon in hand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#28. That present she left in the bathroom was special. It's not a funk, it's a biological weapon. The Pentagon should be taking notes.
Gasmaskman
#29. There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges
#30. Often in my lectures when I use the phrase "imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to describe our nation's political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.
Bell Hooks
#31. The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.
Assegid Habtewold
#32. I'm no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra)
She's right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam,
Siraj Wahhaj
#34. In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. Instead, the polling business gives the patricians an idea of what the mob is thinking, and of how that thinking might be changed or, shall we say, "shaped." It is the essential weapon in the mastery of populism by the elite.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. Be Careful Of Books. Be Careful With Books. Be Careful Or One Can Become A Weapon-Wielder. Be Careful Or One Can Become The Victim.
Cai Guo-Qiang
#37. Let's live to regret this (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)
Martin Riggs
#38. My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
John McCain
#39. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Marlon Riggs
#40. I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#42. If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.
Liam Fox
#43. Kenzie approached sheepishly, one half of the broken rattan in her hand. "Sorry," she said, holding up the ruined weapon with a helpless gesture. "It ... uh ... died a noble death. I can only hope it gave that thing a wicked tongue splinter.
Julie Kagawa
#44. A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.
Vera Nazarian
#45. I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
Ai Weiwei
#46. When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
Cesar Chavez
#47. You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.
Luke Scott
#49. proverb attributed to Seneca that says, "A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Anonymous
#50. A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
Homer
#51. Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.
Muriel Spark
#52. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
#53. Anything can be a weapon in imaginative hands.
Jane Prowse
#54. You're not a lumberjack trying to hack down a tree. You're a dancer, and the sword is an extension of your arm. Move with the blade and keep your eyes on your enemy's upper body, not their weapon.
Julie Kagawa
#55. One of them would hurl a rock, then a few more. Suddenly it's raining rocks. Ya with me? That's their cover, see, because no matter how big a weapon you come out the door with, you still don't want to catch a rock in the face. A sawed-off won't stop a rock, follow?
Jim Lynch
#56. Cool is a weapon created by creeps to obliterate the morals that good parents instill in their children.
Greg Gutfeld
#57. Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
Mary Renault
#58. Because I am fully aware of what the word "fat" means - what it really means, when you say it, or think it. It's not just a simple, descriptive word like "brunette" or "34." It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.
Caitlin Moran
#59. Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#60. Look, bud. I'm trained. Ticked off. And I have a loaded weapon. You should take particular note of the loaded weapon part when annoying me. (Terri)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Ani DiFranco
#62. The most dangerous weapon is the one that strikes closest to the heart.
Tessa Dare
#63. We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.
Michael Morpurgo
#64. The word is the prettiest weapon in the world.
Andre Linke
#65. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins
#66. Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
Laini Taylor
#68. But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
Sidney Sheldon
#70. Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic.
Thomm Quackenbush
#71. Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Mark Twain
#72. Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.
Thomas Bernhard
#73. I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
Taylor Swift
#74. While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
#76. My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
Sly Stone
#77. Words are like knives ... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.
Gosho Aoyama
#78. A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
Elisabeth Elliot
#79. A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it.
Anurag Shourie
#81. Men who have never had to fight love a weapon. They love to hold it in their hands, feel its balance and speculate on the damage they might do, were they called to do it.
M.D. Lachlan
#82. The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.
Louis De Montfort
#83. You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did
Elliot Perlman
#84. His abs looked as if he'd stolen them from a cover model from some male physique magazine. Then, last but not least, his cock. Nothing she'd ever read, or seen could have prepared her for that thing. It was probably considered a concealed weapon in the States.
Amelia Hutchins
#86. Big Bang may not be the best looking and may not be the best dancers out there,but each member holds a distinct individuality as a weapon that allows them to perform freely
Yang Hyun-suk
#87. More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.
Margaret Feinberg
#88. Though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?
Pearl S. Buck
#89. I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.
Victoria Aveyard
#90. the person who has the weapon to make you win or lose is .......YOU
Fiona Harrold
#91. The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none.
Nafisa Haji
#92. Place a weapon in the hands of
Greed, hatred, especially of ignorance
You've created innocent deaths
That wasn't neccasary
R.K. Cowles
#93. But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
Lionel Shriver
#94. Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands.
Charles Wheelan
#95. I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.
Shan Sa
#96. I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.
Warren Spector
#97. Yes, he was very dangerous, perhaps more dangerous than Vazkor, for his weapon was honesty.
Tanith Lee
#98. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.
Douglas Preston
#99. The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
L. Neil Smith
#100. The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.
Robert Anton Wilson
