Weapon Quotes

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

The United States would seek more than the mere reduction or elimination of atomic materials for military purposes. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Remember that hope is a powerful weapon even when all else is lost.

Non-collaboration is a dynamic weapon. We must refuse. We must use it to send this government to the grave.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love.

Negroes do not seek political control by this means. They seek only what they are entitled to and do not wish for domination purchased at the cost of human misery. Negroes were once bred by slave owners to be sold as merchandise. They do not welcome any solution which involves population breeding as a weapon. They are instinctively sympathetic to all who offer methods that will improve their lives and offer them fair opportunity to develop and advance as all other people in our society.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.