Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon."
Weapons quotes
Weapons
804 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"Ideas do not need weapons."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves."
Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace."
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"Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men."
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"That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica)."
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"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon."
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"Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded."
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"The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger."
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"For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions."
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"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
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"Disrespect is the weapon of the weak"
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"Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!"
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"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."
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"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."
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"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon."
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"We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us."
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"Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind."
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"I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever."
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"Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity."
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"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
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"Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction."
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