Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

We send them the instruments [arms] and they pull the trigger.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witnesses to human folly.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands? …. I didn't put it in the hands of bandits and terrorists and it's not my fault that it has mushroomed uncontrollably across the globe. Can I be blamed that they consider it the most reliable weapon?

We must not pay for the actions of Hezbollah.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

War is the trade of Kings.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.