Quotes about Weapons
The power of military might is a Babylonian reality, not a new Jerusalem one. The Lamb was slaughtered because he refused to use Babylon's weapons, and the way of the Lamb is to conquer by the "sword from his mouth," not a sword drawn from a scabbard. The Word of God is the weapon of choice for those walking in the way of the Lamb.
- Scot McKnight
Two or three centuries from now it will be recognized that all the competent killers are Christians; then the pagan world will go to school to the Christian—not to acquire his religion, but his guns. The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with.
- Mark Twain
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
- Jimmy Carter
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30 000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
- Jimmy Carter
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
- Girolamo Savonarola
Such things as smiles can be weapons as well.
- Alice Hoffman
God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
- Oswald Chambers
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
- Anonymous
House Corrino would not risk such a holocaust. They were undoubtedly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening "other intelligence" ever be encountered.
- Frank Herbert
Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.
- Joe Biden