Weapon Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Weapon.
Top Quotes
“Disarmament”
“Nuclear weapons”
“Military-industrial complex”
“Aux armes, citoyens.”
“Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!”
“weapon”
“Wikipedia: Weapon”
“Language was our secret weapon, and as soon we got language we became a really dangerous species.”
“Wikisource Portal: Weapons”
“It is ironic that the accumulation of arms is one of the few expanding industries in a period of economic depression and gloom.”
“Nuclear weapons serve no military purpose whatsoever. They are totally useless — except only to deter one’s opponent from using them.”
“Kennedy would have ordered nuclear retaliation on Cuba —and perhaps the Soviet Union— if nuclear weapons had been fired at United States forces.”
“Five tomahawks, wi’ blude red-rusted:
Five scimitars, wi’ murder crusted;
A garter which a babe had strangled:
A knife, a father’s throat had mangled.”
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
“(Russian: Без дела не вынимай, без славы не вкладывай)
• Don't pull out without battle, don't put in without glory.”
“When iron was found, the trees began to tremble, but the iron reassured them: 'Let no handle made from you enter into anything made from me, and I shall be powerless to injure you.'”
“Statesmen of dedication and sincerity, many of them in this hall, have done their utmost to arrest this development. Yet the arms race goes on. It is as if the arms race had escaped rational human control.”
“During these four years the arms race has exacerbated the threat to peace, heightening the anxieties of peoples and imposing heavier burdens on each nation at the expense of its economic and social development.”
“Removing the threat of a world war—a nuclear war—is the most acute and urgent task of the present day. Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. . . . This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending . . . the hopes of its children.”