Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
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Gunpowder
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder."
James Russell Lowell
Poet, Essayist
"Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain."
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