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"If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened."
"Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs."
"What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons."
"The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers."
"Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add one comment about this, you'll notice that this would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East."
"Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning."
"Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments."
"I am a weapon of massive consumption"
"And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function."
"In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons."
"The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly."
"Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons."
"Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation."
"Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail."
"If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?"