Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
The U. S. has perverted the U. N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. . . . The U. S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.
Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.
The greatest weapon in the world. . . is ridicule.
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.
Valour needs first strength, then a weapon.
We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools. . . now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One. . . . The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.