#weapons

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#always #been #democracy #effective #i

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#any #costly #imagine #infinitely #iranian

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#more #play #should #than #understand

I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#weapons #death

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. ↗

— Claiborne Pell

#destruction #education #fort #gold #mass

Who sows fear, reaps weapons. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#reaps #sows #weapons #who

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. ↗

— Robert Reich

#arab world #authority #high-tech #important #losing

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#concern #countries #did #early #had