“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”

― Dalai Lama XIV

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.” 


― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

– Mohandas Gandhi

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“To conquer a nation first disarm its citizens.”

– Adolf Hitler

“Never again.”

– inmates at Buchenwald in April, 1945

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

– Alexander the Great

“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal to break the spirit of one Irishman who does not want to be broken.”

– Bobby Sands (IRA)

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

– Vladimir Lenin

“Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. There will be no wars in socialist society; consequently, disarmament will be achieved. But whoever expects that socialism will be achieved without a social revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a socialist. Dictatorship is state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century — as in the age of civilisation generally — violence means neither a fist nor a club, but troops. To put “disarmament” in the programme is tantamount to making the general declaration: We are opposed to the use of arms. There is as little Marxism in this as there would be if we were to say: We are opposed to violence!”

– Vladimir Lenin

“You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.”

– Vladimir Lenin

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” – Winston Churchill

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

– Mao Zedung

“Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

– Mao Zedung

“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

– Idi Amin