#gunpowder

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#make #men #real #tall #use

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

#gunpowder #hair #i #kitchen #kitchen table

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#done #gunpowder #mind #press #printing

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#animal #glories #gunpowder #loves #man

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use this to kill people. What better way to celebrate than that?
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebration #chaos #chinese #death #destroy

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#education #gunpowder #guns #mind #printing-press