Quotes by Gunpowder The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. Austin O'Malley gunpowder monk war Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety. Baron de Montesquieu gunpowder secret men All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido. Elizabeth Hoyt gunpowder desire men Remember, remember the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes gunpowder november remember There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder. George Bernard Shaw gunpowder salvation two The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession. Horace Bushnell gunpowder cities age Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. Horace Walpole gunpowder exercise world Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. James Russell Lowell gunpowder home memories The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau gunpowder lost people In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. John Boyd Orr gunpowder warfare government You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. John McAfee gunpowder bitcoin trying The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. Megan Whalen Turner gunpowder point-break thieves Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air. Peter S. Beagle gunpowder voice air In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy . Philip K. Dick gunpowder law philosophy The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia. Pope Julius II gunpowder smell arabia Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! Samuel Taylor Coleridge gunpowder france together Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. Thomas Huxley gunpowder genius power The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. Thomas Carlyle gunpowder real men What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? W. E. B. Du Bois gunpowder steel war Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet. W. E. B. Du Bois gunpowder different world 12»