Quotes about the weapons of great people

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Weapons are objects and means invented by man and used by him to kill other people or animals. Weapons have existed throughout human history, and over the millennia, people have improved them, making them more and more dangerous. In addition, in our time it is available to the masses, and this is the cause of the sad outcomes of many conflict situations. But it is also a means of protection - a weapon used in time saved many lives.

The question of the benefits or harms of such devices and objects is one of the oldest in philosophy, and many sages of the world throughout history have pondered this matter. The results of their reflections can be found in the following quotes about weapons.

Ancient Wise Men

The first weapon was used by ancient apes. According to one theory of the origin of man, it is believed that the monkey was able to evolve precisely because it took up arms.

One way or another, the history of the appearance of the first means of protection and murder dates back to a very deepantiquities. Therefore, when civilization had already arisen in the world, states and cities had appeared, culture had developed and people had already learned to think about the meaning of life, the concept of "philosophy" appeared, even then the question of destruction of each other by people began to worry the greatest of them. It was in that era that the first statements were made that have come down to our times in the form of quotes about weapons. Ancient philosophers discussed whether it is necessary, what benefits and harm it brings to humanity, and what can replace it. Below are quotes about the weapons of the great men of antiquity:

Mark Tullius Cicero:

Let weapons give way to toga, military laurels to civic merit.

Among weapons, the laws are silent.

Titus Livy:

Necessity is the last and most powerful weapon.

Aristotle:

Nature gave man a weapon in his hands - intellectual moral force, but he can use this weapon in the opposite direction, so a person without moral principles turns out to be the most impious and wild creature, base in his sexual and taste instincts.

Pythagoras of Samos:

Flattery is like a weapon in a picture: it gives pleasure but no benefit.

Thucydides:

Success in war does not depend on weapons, but on money, in which weapons only bring benefits.

Lao Tzu:

Even the best weapons do not bode well.

Publius Terence Afr:

It behooves the prudent to try everything before resorting to arms.

The wise should decide all matters with words, not with weapons.

Quotes about weapons from foreign figures

Weapons are ubiquitous. Countries have always competed in the arms race, and the most powerful state has always been considered the most prepared for military operations. Throughout the history of mankind, wars brought only destruction, but by the twentieth century, the clashes became more and more violent, because new, much more terrible weapons of mass destruction began to appear in the world. This began to disturb the population, and with it the great figures of the whole world. The words that became one of the most famous quotes about weapons were spoken by Albert Einstein after the end of World War II:

I don't know what kind of weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but sticks and stones will be used in WW4.

Introducing quotes from other people:

Guy de Maupassant:

Why not judge governments for every declaration of war? If the nations would understand this… if they would not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they would use weapons to turn them against those who gave them to beat them - on this day the war would die.

Michel de Montaigne:

Knowledge is a double-edged weapon that only burdens and can injure its owner if the hand that holds it is weak and does not know how to use it well…

Henry Fielding:

Slander is a more terrible weapon than a sword, since the wounds inflicted by it are always incurable.

Henrik Ibsen:

The one who hits the enemy with his own weapon wins.

Michel de Montaigne:

The noise of weapons drowns out the voice of laws.

Niccolò Machiavelli:

Weapons should be the last resort when other means prove insufficient.

Martin Luther King:

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on social programs to support the population is approaching spiritual death.

George Washington:

I am quite sure that no one should hesitate for a moment to take up arms to protect the priceless gift of freedom upon which all good and evil in life depend, but weapons, I might add, are the last resort.

Miguel de Cervantes:

I firmly believe that the one who invented firearms is now paying the price in hell for his satanic invention, because thanks to him the hand of a vile coward can take the life of a valiant caballero.

Russian figures

Russia has undergone many wars, its people have experienced different types of weapons. Despite this, the great people of Russia consider it the main weapon - the great and mighty Russian language. So, for example, Maxim Gorky and Vasily Klyuchevsky expressed themselves about him:

Maxim Gorky

Language is a writer's weapon, like a soldier's gun. The better the weapon, the stronger the warrior.

Vasily O. Klyuchevsky:

The word is the great weapon of life.

Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky considered the mind to be the main weapon of man:

The mind is the spiritual weapon of man.

The following are statements about weapons by some Russian writers and poets of our time:

Stanislav E. Lec:

Before, people were closer to each other. I had to - the weapon was only melee.

Andrey O. Belyanin:

Diplomacy without weapons is like music without instruments.

Ilya V. Kormiltsev:

The book… is the perfect weapon because it doesn't aim to destroy anyone. But it changes whoever reads it.

Quotes about women and weapons

Fine sex and weapons in our view - like two opposites. However, there were times when women also picked up dangerous devices and went to protect their homeland and their homes. But for the most part, it is still believed that a woman’s weapon is not strength or any material tool, but her mind and way of thinking. However, Frederick the Great and Mikhail Lermontov agreed and considered tears to be the main weapon of a woman:

Frederick the Great:

A woman's tears can be anything - a symbol of grief, a consequence of resentment, a reaction to an insult or peeling an onion, but most often they are a weapon!

Mikhail Lermontov, "Princess Ligovskaya":

What women don't cry about: Tears are their offensive and defensive weapons. Annoyance, joy,powerless hatred, powerless love they have one expression.

Below are more quotes about women and their weapons:

Cyril Connolly:

In the war of the sexes, carelessness is a man's weapon, revenge is a woman's weapon

Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being":

What weapon does she have? Only her loy alty.

Sophie Loren:

A man's fantasy is a woman's best weapon.

Alexandre Dumas in his work "Three Musketeers" mentioned women and what he considers them the main weapon:

We will fight with women's weapons: my strength is in my weakness.

We can say that the concept of "weapon" is multifaceted. It refers not only to some device that can cause physical pain, but also the ability to negatively affect other people.