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Tag Name "Disarms" (13)

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Candor disarms paranoia.
Allen Ginsberg
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Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.
David Denby
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The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Helen Keller
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
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[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.
Lisa Loomer
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When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.
Ted Nugent
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
A. O. Scott
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Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.
Bette Midler
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
Henri Bergson
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As I've been open with my faith, there's a consistency that almost disarms people. They know what they're going to get when they see me. They know what they're going to get when they talk to me.
Kelly Clark
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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
Philip Yancey
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
William Hazlitt