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Bullets Quotes

Quotes referencing bullets, conflict, and resolve.

This page collects quotes that reference bullets, both literally in the context of conflict and uprising, and metaphorically, as in the idea of 'psychic bullets' used to describe emotional harm. The tone across these quotes is largely reflective rather than celebratory.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Abraham Lincoln

The Creation Museum isn't really a museum at all. It's an argument. It's not even an argument. It's the ammunition for an argument. It is the Word made into bullets. An armory of righteous revisionism.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

Quotes by Yasser Arafat

It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets.

Quotes by Timothy Olyphant

Action Quotes

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Quotes by Shimon Peres

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Quotes by Shane Black

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Quotes by Paul Rand

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Norman Mailer

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Quotes by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Afraid Quotes

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Quotes by Martin Amis

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Quotes by Jean Paul

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

Quotes by Jackie Gleason

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Quotes by Hector Elizondo

America Quotes

I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.

Quotes by Florence Pugh

I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.

Quotes by Brian Azzarello

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

Quotes by Brian Azzarello

I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.

Quotes by Brian Azzarello

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

Quotes by Amanda Lindhout

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Bullets quotes page about?
It gathers quotes that reference bullets, used both literally in descriptions of conflict and figuratively to describe emotional or psychological harm.
Why do people search for quotes about bullets?
These quotes are often referenced in discussions of history, conflict, or resilience, rather than as literal calls to violence.
Do any quotes use bullets as a metaphor?
Yes, one quote describes 'psychic bullets' as a way people harm each other emotionally, distinguishing this from literal violence.
Are these quotes describing specific historical events?
Some reference uprisings and conflict in general terms; this page presents the quotes as historical or reflective commentary, not as endorsements of violence.
Do the quotes discuss fear or confidence around bullets?
Yes, one quote observes it's easy to act quick and confident when there's no real risk involved, contrasting bravado with genuine danger.

Related themes of struggle and confrontation appear in quotes tagged Argument or Afraid, both connected to conflict and its emotional weight.