These things are unnecessary...

...if you would really think about life. We did not have them when I was alive, and we should not have them now that I am dead.

Those who feel power, when they have a gun in their hands, come to know that power as fleeting.

I invented many instruments of warfare, I admit. I did it to keep bread on my table. This I regret. When one thought led to the other, I realized them. For this I am truly sorry.

L. da Vinci