„Americans don’t go around carrying guns with the idea they’re using them to influence other Americans. There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.“

— Ronald Reagan

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„Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?“
— Joseph Stalin
„We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.“
— Michel Foucault
„Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.“
— Al Capone
„Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.“
— George S. Patton
„Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don’t think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn’t people own them? I’m not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It’s probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.“
— Keanu Reeves
„I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.“
— Noam Chomsky