#weapon

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#hungry #hungry man #man #reach #weapon

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#civil #civil war #could #go #grenades

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons. ↗

— George W. Bush

#freedom-loving #hold #hostage #leaders #nations

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women. ↗

— Maria Callas

#being #enough #greatest #greatest weapon #hands

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#hold #temper #weapon

Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns -- or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#gun-control #gun-laws #gun-owners #gun-violence #guns

What...?" He began as he approached her before noticing the gate was open. He took command and wished he was in uniform with his star and weapon, but at the moment he was only a highly trained civilian, and unarmed. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#command #highly-trained #star #unarmed #uniform

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Omar Nelson Bradley

#humanism #humanity #imperialism #nuclear-weapons #peace

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