Weapon
An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.
A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
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Weapon Quotations
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx
Weapon Translations
weapon in Dutch is wapen
weapon in French is arme
weapon in German is Waffe
weapon in Hungarian is fegyver
weapon in Italian is armi, arma, arme
weapon in Portuguese is arma
weapon in Spanish is arma
weapon in Swedish is vapen
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