#weapon

I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#falsehood #social-weapons #truth #romantic

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear. ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#americans #atomic-bomb #george-bush #nuclear #nuclear-weapons

Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons. Munitions Commander? Why me? I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part. -Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #military #promotion #sci-fi #weapons

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cruel #defeated #fought #junk #many

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ammunition #bad #billions #get #learn

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#agents #already #door #federal #front

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#agree #alliance #destruction #effective #international

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #cannot #community #country #defying

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#hold #right #tool #weapon #you

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#ever #intangible #leadership #replace #therefore