46 Quotes by Mikhail Kalashnikov

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

Life is composed of different inventions.

My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.