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Disarmed Quotes

Giving up arms, willingly or not.

One quote is a literal demand about returned weapons after surrender; another argues the internet needs a kind of philosophical disarming so we stop taking it so seriously. Between them sits the harder question of what security looks like once the guns are gone.

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full...

Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a...

Quotes by Punit Renjen

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

Quotes by Ludwig Quidde

Achieve Quotes

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase...

Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and...

Quotes by Fidel Castro

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Quotes by Douglas Hurd

The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that...

Quotes by David Trimble

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a...

Quotes by Charles M. Blow

Agriculture Quotes

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that...

Quotes by Carl Safina

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

Quotes by Ariel Sharon

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

Quotes by Allen Boyd

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the 'Disarmed' quotes page cover?
These quotes use 'disarmed' in a few different senses - literal military disarmament, gun ownership debates, and even a call to philosophically disarm how people relate to the internet.
Is there a historical quote about surrendering weapons?
Yes - one quote is a direct question from someone whose men were disarmed without their knowledge, asking whether their weapons would be returned, capturing a moment of confrontation over authority and trust.
Does this collection discuss gun rights debates?
One quote describes a particular political worldview's concern that a disarmed public could be left vulnerable to criminals, framed as one perspective within a larger ongoing debate rather than a settled fact.
Is there a quote about disarmament between nations?
Yes - one line reflects on how proportional disarmament between countries, if paired with a secure peace, would not have weakened anyone's military security.
Why is the internet mentioned in a 'Disarmed' quotes collection?
One quote argues, somewhat unexpectedly, that the internet itself needs a kind of philosophical disarming because people treat it with far more seriousness and literal-mindedness than it deserves, using Wikipedia as a passing reference point.

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