Let us pick up our books and our pens,†I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the 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.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.