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"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming."
"Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind"
"For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."
"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"
"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger."
"Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons."
"among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all"
"My greatest weapon is mute prayer."
"My weapon of choice is my voice."
"I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me!"
"Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'"
"Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer."
"We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization."
"Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use."
"Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome."
"Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not."
"One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand."
"Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon."
"Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy."
"A sneer is the weapon of the weak."
