The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
—T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British Soldier, Scholar, Writer
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
—Charles Lindbergh (1902–74) American Aviator, Inventor, Conservationist
Above all, I regret that scientific experiments—some of them mine—should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.
—Harold Urey (1893–1981) American Chemist
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
—Lois McMaster Bujold (b.1949) American Writer, Novelist
Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them…The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again.
—Bill Clinton (b.1946) American Head of State, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
—Jean Anouilh (1910–87) French Dramatist
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
—George D. Prentice (1802–70) American Journalist, Editor, Poet
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
—Robert Burton (1577–1640) English Scholar, Clergyman
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Women’s weapon, water-drops.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
—Terry Goodkind (1948–2020) American Author of Fantasy Fiction
All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare – in Treaty form – that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.
—Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) British Physicist, Activist
On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
—Stephen Harper
So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing… meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.
—Mohamed ElBaradei (b.1942) Egyptian Diplomat
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
—Anthony Hope (1863–1933) English Novelist, Playwright
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace.
—Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State
A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
—Turkish Proverb
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.
—Mitch Albom (b.1958) American Sports Journalist
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American Author, Journalist, Short Story Writer
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
—Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
—Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German Soldier
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man’s creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots…
—Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) Russian Novelist, Journalist
May their weapons fall from their (hands), may they be unable to lay the arrow on (the bow)! And then (our) arrows shall smite them, badly frightened, in their vital members.
—The Vedas Sacred Books of Hinduism
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