Unarmed – Quotes

Life is a battle

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed. Evan Esar

I am unarmed. But Butler here, my …ah…butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler? Eoin Colfer

Rendering oneself unarmed when

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind. Friedrich Nietzsche

A man was the

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon. Frank O’Hara

For we let our

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall … Read more

You think that social

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers. Don Tapscott

I don’t think I

I don’t think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don’t see the point of using violence to oppose violence, but many people would and the Brotherhood know that. For this reason they want an unarmed population. Adolph Hitler introduced gun … Read more

Sooner or later we

Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed. David Gell

And why does England

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? … Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her … Read more

As I got to

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized… I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given … Read more