Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles, and words.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

When French surrealist dramatist, Alfred Jarry, was reprimanded by a woman for firing his pistol close to her child, who might have been killed, he calmly replied, 'Madame, I would have given you another.'

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Profanity is the weapon of the witless.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.