“If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

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Novelist 1963

Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator

Source: Revolver

“David Frost: If you haven't got nuclear weapons, the choice in that situation would be to subject your forces to an unfair battle.
Neil Kinnock: Yes, what you're suggesting is that the alternatives are between the gesture, the threat, or the use of nuclear weapons, and surrender. In these circumstances the choice is posed, and this is a classical choice, between exterminating everything you stand for and the flower of your youth, or using all the resources you have to make any occupation totally untenable.”

Neil Kinnock (1942) British politician

Television interview with David Frost on TV-AM (24 May 1987); reported in David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, "The British General Election of 1987" (Macmillan, 1987), p. 103.

“Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

Introduction,Page 9
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

“You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.”

Connie Brockway (1954) American writer

Source: The Bridal Season

“Certain guns have a reputation of being especially deadly. They would be the weapons of choice. Contrary to popular belief that these are guys who go berserk, they tend to be well-planned executions. They plan what they are going to wear and what weapons to bring.”

James Alan Fox (1951) American criminologist

referring to the Glock semiautomatic handgun ([Glock semiautomatic pistol links recent mass shootings, Sari, Horwitz, w:Sari Horwitz, July 20, 2012, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/glock-semiautomatic-pistol-links-recent-mass-shootings/2012/07/20/gJQAINYwyW_story.html])
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“The choice of methods and weapons to be used by the champions of democracy will not depend upon our wishes but will be determined by political and social conditions. and especially by the methods and weapons of the enemy.”

Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician

Chap. V, The Period of Dictatorship <br class="br">"Hitlerism and Social Democracy" (1934) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/hitler/index.htm