Best weapons & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”

War Ends Fighting Situation Weapons Institutions Currents Factors Liberation Phenomenon Imperialism Proletariat Employing Current Situation Vanguard

Author:Clara Zetkin

“In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight. And, like it or not, you're in it.”

Humans Ends Stories Difficult Example Planets Genius Weapons Capable Sight Pressure Species Bombs Teamwork Most Amazing Atomic Bomb Under Pressure Poise

Author:Steve Sheinkin

“Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.”

Men Should War Ends Weapons Universal Improvement Invention Soil Destructive Wiser

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.”

Ends Difficult Enemy Speech Weapons Overcoming Tongue

Book:Gods and Androids

Source: Gods and Androids

“We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.”

Men Needs Should Stills War Ends Sports Memories Middle Skills Weapons Should Have Esteem Crafts Warrior Twilight Valour Slaying Skills And Knowledge

Author:Faramir

“It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.”

Knows Ends Done America Fall Land Duty Weapons Independence West Monsters Cuba Hereafter West Indies Slingshots

Author:Jose Marti

“[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.”

“On the other end of the spectrum, we can't use this permission to sometimes say no and use it as a wand to wish away all our responsibilities. We also must remember not to use our "no" answers as a weapon. We can't turn into No! ninjas, karate-chopping anyone who even comes close to asking us for something.”

Ends Sometimes Use Remember Turns Wish Answers Responsibility Weapons Asking Permission Spectrum Karate Wands Ninja Chopping

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.”

Ends Violence Mankind Weapons Misery Triumph Mourning Festivals

Author:Laozi

“Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. There's human beings killed on the other end. You never see them. You don't have to worry about them. You don't have to meet their widows. It's sort of an antiseptic warfare.”

Want Humans War Ends Country Human Beings Perfect Worry Weapons Direct Warfare Involvement Widows Drones Fingerprints

Author:Mark Shields

“This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.”

People Feels Persons Two Ends Weapons Percent Handle Fifty Primitive Painless

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person.”

“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.”

“So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.”

“Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.”

People Ends Shows America Position Weapons Gun Standing Safety Backgrounds Checks Instant Voting Assault Consensus Bans Loopholes Assault Weapons Gun Safety Background Checks

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are your plans to eliminate nuclear weapons? To answer these correctly is to bring love into action.”

Ends Action Asks Answers Leader Poverty Plans Politician Protect Weapons Climate Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

Author:Jonathan Granoff

“This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.”

Ends Dangerous Danger Weapons Mass Destruction Victim Gas Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Dangerous Things Mustard Mustard Gas

Author:George Packer

“At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.”

Said Ends Weapons Chemicals Chemical Weapons

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.”

Ends Weapons Administration Agreement Negotiation Procedures Bans Compliance Inspection Biological Weapons

Author:John Burroughs

“If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.”

Ifs War Ends Choices Easy Cities Weapons Mass Destruction Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction American Cities

Author:James Inhofe

“I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can threaten them, or that if they do the Russians know how to handle them and that that's the reason that it's all the more important that Russians be involved in the sale of high-end conventional weapons, the Bushehr nuclear reactor in the case of Russia and Iran, and similar kinds of relationships.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Important Ends Reason Cases Know How Involved Weapons Nuclear Russia Handle Iran Capability Conventional North Korea Korean North Korean Nuclear Reactors

Author:John Bolton

“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.”

“In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.”

Ends Age Technology Weapons Nuclear Efficient Exploitation Domination Dead Ends Ethos Biological Weapons High Technology

Author:Riane Eisler

“I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.”

“But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.”

Knows Ends Night Calling Weapons Destruction Iraq Israel Nuclear Iran Racing Day And Night Libya Pact Atomic Weapons

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.”

Ifs Ends States Would Be Earth United United States Weapons Nuclear Target Nuclear Weapons Arsenal End Of Life

Author:Ted Turner

“How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira”

Ends Would Be Magic Weapons Defeat Noble Teeth Defeated Blades Claws Saphira

Author:Christopher Paolini

“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.”

Men Life Ends Inspiration Left Powerful Blood Terrible Weapons Destruction Distance Leaving Poison Most Powerful Clue Arrows Avoided Spears Daggers

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”

Ifs Heart Ends Weapons Shantaram

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.”

Knows Men Ends Sides Failing Equal Weapons Infinite Tongue Wounds Every Man Wounded Rail Reproach

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)

“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”

Thinking World Ends Hate Weapons Victim Destructive Love Hate Dark Tower Dark Tower Series Roland Deschain Deschain

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.”

People Knows Ends Order Prove Weapons Sticks Misunderstanding Perfidy

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.”

Knows Has Beens War Ends Hands Weapons Peasants Revolt Discworld Scythes

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle. When Alec had wanted to go out hunting alone with Jace, leaving Izzy behind, Jace had spoken up for her: “We need her with us; she’s the best there is. Aside from me, of course.” She had loved him just for that.”

Needs Ends Wanted Courses Pleasure Behinds Battle Weapons Mark Leaving Painful Burning Hunting Jace Blades Numbing Swiftness

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!”

War Ends Together Energy Focus Violence Groups Particular Kings Activity Weapons Resources Argument Worthy Inevitable Luther Coalitions Coming Together Affirming Life Affirming Bravo

Author:Medea Benjamin

“The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!”

“Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that civilization is falling apart and the world we know is coming to an end. In that case, why no turn to religion and look forward to the Day of Judgment, ... [being] lifted into eternal bliss ... [and] watching the scoffers and disbelievers writhe forever in torment.”

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