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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun
I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply read more
"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have read more
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into read more
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert read more
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good read more
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow
