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Weapons Quotes (page 13)

Thomas Jefferson quote: "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against..."
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Thomas Jefferson
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young. Thomas Pynchon
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack. W. Somerset Maugham
It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error. As the means of extermination are improved, the means of reducing men who hold the state conception of life to submission can be improved to correspond. They may slaughter them by thousands, by millions, they may tear them to pieces, still they will march to war like senseless cattle. Some will want beating to make them move, others will be proud to go if they are allowed to wear a... Leo Tolstoy
I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees. J. R. R. Tolkien
Chaim Potok quote: "It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until..."
It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon... Chaim Potok
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision. J. K. Rowling
Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face, possibly in these same primeval forests. That we are here today evidences their victory. What they did may we not do? And even better, for are we not armed with ages of superior knowledge, and have we not the means of protection, defense, and sustenance which science has given us, but of which they were totally ignorant? What they accomplished, Alice, with instruments and... Edgar Rice Burroughs
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself. Yevgeny Zamyatin
I don't care if we don't sleep at all tonight, Let's just fix this whole thing now. I swear to God we're gonna get it right. If you lay your weapon down. Red wine and ambien. You're talking shit again. It's heartbreak warfare. John Mayer
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. Salman Rushdie
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. James Allen
Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Mitch Albom
Terry Brooks quote: "Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly..."
Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world. Terry Brooks

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