Weapon Quotes

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

We're dealing with them [Iran] directly and maybe a [Nuclear] deal is going to be made. Doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and if the talks aren't successful, I think it's going to be a very bad day for Iran.

In its struggle for power the proletariat has no other weapon but organisation. Disunited by the rule of anarchic competition in the bourgeois world, ground down by forced labour for capital, constantly thrust back to the 'lower depths' of utter destitution, savagery, and degeneration, the proletariat can, and inevitably will become an invincible force only through its ideological unification on the principles of Marxism being reinforced by the material unity of organisation, which welds millions of toilers into an army of the working class.

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

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.

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

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

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

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.

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

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.