Ruger to Tom Brokaw of NBC News in 1992. ([Fully Loaded: Inside the Shadowy World of America’s 10 Biggest Gunmakers, Josh, Harkinson, June 14, 2016, May 31, 2018, Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/fully-loaded-ten-biggest-gun-manufacturers-america/]; [Magazine limits were first proposed by Connecticut gun maker, Connecticut Magazine, New Haven Register, April 1, 2013, June 6, 2018, https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Magazine-limits-were-first-proposed-by-11435654.php]).
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 41e
“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
Variant: Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
-Don Vito Corleone
Source: The Godfather
Source: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009), p. 15
“Ideas are more powerful than guns.”
Wikinews interview with Tony Benn (8 August 2007), quote from approx 24min45 sec into interview.
2000s
“Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.”
Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158
Source: 1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
“The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.”
“Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?”
As quoted in, "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster", by Thomas Hauser, in The New York Sun (14 September 2005)
