I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.
Givers for God disarm the power of money.
Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.
Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.
Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead.
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations. . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.
To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them.
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.