A Quote by Ammon Hennacy

Force is the weapon of the weak.

Ammon Hennacy

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Ammon Hennacy
American - Activist
July 24, 1893 - January 14, 1970

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

George Orwell

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

Betty Williams

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

George Orwell

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

Maurice Blanchot

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

James Russell Lowell

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Ralph Abernathy

Criticising is a weapon of the weak.

Dani Alves

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

Alice Miller

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

Ronald Reagan

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Georges Bidault

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

Ted Koppel

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Alice Miller

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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