He has made his weapons his gods. When his weapons win he is defeated himself.
aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.
quote by Martin Amis
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Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.
quote by Joe Lieberman
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We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.
quote by Mohammed Aldouri
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We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
quote by Joseph Rotblat
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If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.
quote by Bruce Kent
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
quote by Nancy Pelosi
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Until Further Notification
Children...
Once again,
It has been reported...
A few of you disobeyed our school policy,
And were seen playing with your weapons
In your neighborhoods.
At night.
And threatening the local merchants.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
And this was not your homework assignment.
It was clearly stated,
Those weapons were only to be cleaned.
Not toted around to be brandied about.
Now because of a few...
The rest of you have lost that privileged.
From now on,
Those weapons...
Until further notification,
Are not to leave the school grounds.
And will only be used inside of the school.
Have I made myself clear?
Unfortunately all must now suffer the consequences!
Now...
If I can have all of you turn to the chapter entitled,
Pistol Whipping!
And I will need two of you to give us a demonstration.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Put Down Your Weapons
Put down your weapons!
What do you defend?
Your right to bury natives,
Upon their own land?
What images of grandeur
Do you perceive?
Bugle calls from cavalier mountings...
Will not come forth descending,
With surrounding cavalries
Conquesting in glee and bravado!
What messages do you send...
To ancestors awakened from this grief?
Your ways to conquer peace,
Has been defeated by barbaric imaginings!
Put down your weapons!
The alarms that ring,
Come from your own shores you sell...
And leave abandoned and unfenced!
Your backyards are beginning to burn in flames!
And yet you stake claim to treasures not yours.
Not worthy of the blood you shed,
Or interests of those displeased by the cost of guilt!
Put down your weapons,
Or eternally bow your head,
In sorrow with no guarantee...
You will be recognized,
At your own doorstep that has been sold
Prior to your return
Of any valor professed to have earned!
These are not those days to relive in glory!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Build Your Weapons
Let me light the fire!
Build your weapons
These nations are overrun with you
Out of nation
To this end, we'll resist forever
Ready to kill all thrashy gods
With this machine cry out...FIRE!
The kids speed along when
The last night comes down
I hear you win
You break the sound barrier
To race down the streets
We hear you sharpen the weapons
Tonight the killer will come
With his smashing sound
Tomorrow behind you
Death will raise by your noise
The steel will be sold
Under the hammer
We will stir heaven and earth
You'll bump one's head on the stage
And your music will be all the rage
Suddenly a storm will
Sweep this town
The invaders and their
Weapons will be back
Move your ass build your kits
And face death again
At work to exist
Don't need restrictions
Raise the forceful fist
Forge ahead with fun
As long as I live
I will cross our weapons
To heat up the steel
It's time for an ovation
song performed by by Voivod
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Put Down Your Weapons!
Put down your weapons...
And the ammunition fed,
To spread your hatred!
On whose souls do you believe,
Are crushed to bleed as you succeed...
In what?
To do what for who and why?
The selling of an advance life...
To live in a living hell to dwell?
To raise more of it as you see fit?
Put down your weapons.
What peace is received by depleting the Earth?
With a mental disease perceiving a self worth.
What is it you think is being achieved?
In an atmosphere of religious differences...
With falsities conceived
To reveal racist contempt!
From misconceived interpretations meant,
To explore your won destruction?
To allow a rise to the top to breathe,
Hollow victories...
That leaves a quality of life left to bleed.
To say there has been 'something' conquered.
Put down your weapons!
Confess your digressions.
Put down your weapons!
At let God restore your mind...
To a peace you say you fight to find.
Put down your weapons.
Or all life once known,
Will be left behind to rot to dust...
From which the Earth it came!
Before your selfishness grew to be shown!
To display your degradations?
Last chance!
PUT
DOWN
YOUR
WEAPONS
Put them down!
And learn from past lessons.
They are all around.
With everyone trying to prove themselves,
The greatest of fools!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
quote by Paul Tsongas
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Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.
quote by Josh Sugarmann
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
quote by Abu Bakar Bashir
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When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
quote by John Sununu
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
Saddam Hussein has openly admitted to the rest of the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. He used those weapons to kill his own people.
quote by Saxby Chambliss
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And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.
quote by Lawrence Eagleburger
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We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.
quote by Jay Rockefeller
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Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons.
quote by Mohamed ElBaradei
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