“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick up can do whatever he wants.”
Violence is Golden
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
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American activist, editor and writer 1974Related quotes
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 34
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Jacques Barzun
(1907–2012) Historian
Source: Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943), IV
Context: He never invested his whole moral capital in a man, a book, or a cause, but treasured up wisdom wherever it could be picked up, always with scrupulous acknowledgment … His eclecticism saving him from the cycle of hope-disillusion-despair, his highest effectiveness was as a skirmisher in the daily battle for light and justice, as a critic of new doctrine and a refurbisher of old, as a voice of warning and encouragement. That his action has not been in vain, we can measure by how little Shaw's iconoclasm stirs our blood; we no longer remember what he destroyed that was blocking our view.
“Rickey Henderson, pick up the phone, man, it's me… you.”
David Cross
(1964) American comedian, writer and actor
Shut Up, You Fucking Baby
“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”
Courtney Love
(1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
On women playing rock music, quoted in 1991, from This is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock https://books.google.com/books?id=MdmBYULpTrAC&pg=PT72&lpg=PT72&dq=i+want+every+girl+in+the+world+to+pick+up+a+guitar+and+start+screaming&source=bl&ots=wGJk2wQvio&sig=becPFUbQgPjVPwe75eEIadx-kYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCxYu6lvrTAhXjilQKHeziAZM4ChDoAQg5MAU#v=onepage&q=i%20want%20every%20girl%20in%20the%20world%20to%20pick%20up%20a%20guitar%20and%20start%20screaming&f=false (2008), p. 71
1991–1995
“Words are devils, which may lead a man to pick up a sword; but they can never teach him to use it.”
Mark Rosenfelder
American language inventor
A saying by Nyekhen http://www.almeopedia.com/Nyekhen, an early Almean general who became a culture hero
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“And he's crossing the road,
He's picking up his Daily…Star”
Pete Doherty
(1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
"Begging" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry