A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end.

-Anonymous
  British pacifist slogan during  World War II.

Every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Nehemiah 4:17.

In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

   NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'Welcome Home from Vietnam, Son'.

In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.

-Crashaw, Richard
'The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa', collectedin Carmen Deo Nostro (publishedposthumously,1652).

When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivativefromthispureactivitymanipulated bya sortof priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

-Lezama Lima,Jose¤
  The Art of Being Ruled.

Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein'guteWehr und Waffen. A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon.

-Luther, Martin
  Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (translated by Thomas Carlyle).

The Doctorissaidalsotohaveinventedanextraordinary weapon which will make war less brutal. It is described as a very powerful liquid which rots braces at a distance of a mile.

-Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
  'Bracerot'.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet.Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

-Smith
  In the NewYorker,10 Dec.

O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 5, stanza12,'Lochinvar'.

I come from a state where gun control is just how steady you hold your weapon.

-Simpson, Alan (Kooi)
  In Fortune, 30 Dec.

But what is Dust, SaveTime's most lethal weapon, Her faithful ally and our sneaking foe?

-Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert
  'Mrs Southern's Enemy'.

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Quoted by Lloyd Osbourne in'The Death of Stevenson', preface toTusitala edition of Weir of Hermiston (published1924).