488 Quotes About Weapons

One may buy and sell the weapons for the security; however, one can only secure, and accomplish that, to apply the respect, justice, jobs, and the fundamental rights of the people than with the weapons.

But here am I, riding this steel behemoth – the most ominous killing machine ever conceived; a weapon of war with the innocuous name of carrier. It transports our crew and air wing personnel to the Oriental dens of sin. It takes us to the blood-soaked terrain of the Vietnamese. It is, in a single thought, one of the most obscene but amazingly brilliant products of human ingenuity.

Mankind had not been very good at learning that swords are dangerous if left lying around, although it had done its limited best to make sure that the chances of one this size being wielded accidentally were high. A cheering thought, that. It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design.

Is this door locked?""Not from the inside," Danica said. "but it's alarmed to hell and back. I didn't have time to hack it." "That's fine. I think we abandoned subtlety right around the time we started throwing grenades.

They were called Ontos, after the Greek word for "thing," in part because they were ugly.

It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.

Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of tyranny, but not against all.

He was outfitted for the occasion with his broadsword, long knife, several throwing knives tucked in his boots, the dragon pistol, and a pocket pistol in his waistcoat. "You are a walking armory," Father Jacob observed. "Because you are a walking target," said Sir Ander.

Each weapon is a work of art, and I wonder what drives the impulse to make the instruments of death beautiful. A jewel-encrusted dagger. A golden-pommeled sword.A kiss.Like we can make murder less ugly by performing it with something splendid.