These drones quotes will inspire you. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UASes) or make a continuous low humming sound.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging drones quotes, drones sayings, and drones proverbs.
Best Drones Quotes
- “Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.” ~ Bill Gates
- “A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.” ~ Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- “The scary thing about the future… there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they’ll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can’t reason with a drone.” ~ Matt Groening , Future about drones quotes
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“Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: ‘You’re going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you’re sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'” ~ P. W. Singer
- “The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.” ~ Barack Obama
- “A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don’t talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don’t know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can’t see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you’ll be injured if you’re there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It’s the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.” ~ Noam Chomsky
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“What happens if a drone falls right next to her?” ~ Kanye West
- “You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.” ~ Werner Herzog
- “There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that’s happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor , Drones quotes flying
- “Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn’t need drones. It’s just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they’re going to be spying on neighbors. People don’t need drones.” ~ Gary B Smith
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“I’m a big advocate of drones.” ~ Robert M. Gates
- “A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home.” ~ Charles Krauthammer
- “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas – except the drone.” ~ Mort Sahl
- “A lazy man’s wife is generally the power behind the drone.” ~ Evan Esar
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“The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.” ~ Plato
- “I think the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans is the drone, and the use of the drone and the very few regulations that are on it today.” ~ Dianne Feinstein
- “And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.” ~ Gavin Hood
- “We’re opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we’re seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.” ~ Edward Snowden
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“I don’t think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.” ~ Ray Davies
- “If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won’t end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.” ~ Gabrielle Union
- “Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you — like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist — or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Four- and five-year-olds’ play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We’ve seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors’ parts in their play, insisting that “only boys can be doctors,” against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they’ve ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” ~ Stella Chess
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“The greatest threat to extremism isn’t drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
- “The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.” ~ William H. Whyte
- “I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There’s no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.” ~ Tim Gunn
- “I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world. And it’s widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes, and I support that and entirely, and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology, and believe that we should continue to use it, to continue to go after the people that represent a threat to this nation and to our friends.” ~ Mitt Romney
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“Generally speaking, it’s a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.” ~ Neill Blomkamp
- “We’ve been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It’s been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.” ~ Cornel West
- “The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be “a hand, not a mouth”; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.” ~ Pervez Hoodbhoy
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“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: ‘I, the State, am the people’.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.” ~ Alice Walker
- “The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself ‘Pro-Life.'” ~ John Fugelsang
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“I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn’t work, as well.” ~ Robert Baer
- “Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan are now being supplied to police departments across the nation and not surprisingly the increase in such weapons is matched by training local police in war zone tactics and strategies.” ~ Henry Giroux
- “We’re setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you’re sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don’t know if that’s necessarily such a good thing.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “I’m very impressed and the next movie I do I’m definitely going to use a lot of drones in it, because they’re very light and flexible and fast, and there are things that you can do with them that you can’t possibly do with a helicopter for safety reasons.” ~ Paul W. S. Anderson
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“The problem with the drone is it’s like your lawn mower. You’ve got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.” ~ Bruce Riedel
- “Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its intended target or incinerates a goat-herder and his flock is incidental. In fact, the occasional killing of civilians may well be a desired outcome since collateral deaths intensify the fear. This is punishment by example, not for any particular crime or impending threat, but merely because of who you are, where you live, what you might believe. These new circuitries of death are meant to humiliate, subdue and dehumanize.” ~ Jeffrey St. Clair
- “President Obama said the small drone that flew over the White House fence yesterday could be bought at any RadioShack. After hearing this, the RadioShack CEO said, ‘I’m shocked to find out we still sell something people want.'” ~ Conan O’Brien
- “Liberals don’t mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about ‘McCarthyism.'” ~ Ann Coulter
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“On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.” ~ Rand Paul
- “When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that’s lodged in the side of the school that has “Made in USA” on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have – you don’t have to do it now, but you need to think about that.” ~ Lupe Fiasco
- “There’s always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it’s a bagpipe or a tambura, there’s always some sort of drone instrument, and there’s always percussion.” ~ Paul Weller
- “She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.” ~ Virginia Woolf
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“A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I’ve got a couple of drones. I’ve got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun” ~ Shaquille O’Neal
- “Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies… He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.” ~ Peter Bergen
- “We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.” ~ Vishal Sikka
- “In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage – including unfair damage – from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.” ~ Greta Van Susteren
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“The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “I’m a humorist. A guy like Paul Simon just makes my life so much simpler. When I was there, he had a hearing against hate. Steven Spielberg came and testified against hate. Paul Simon said hate was bad. Orrin Hatch was there, and he was against hate too. Everyone was opposed to hate. Is this really a wonderful way to spend our tax dollars, to have these men drone away about how against hate they are?” ~ Dave Barry
- “Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Don’t come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don’t act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only find dignity and sovereignty. Here we haven’t invaded anyone. Here we don’t torture like in Guantanamo. Here we don’t have drones killing alleged terrorist without any due trial, killing also the women and children of those supposed terrorists. So don’t come lecturing us about life, law, dignity, or liberty. You don’t have the moral right to do so.” ~ Rafael Correa
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“With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.” ~ Justin Sane
- “Men aren’t allowed to have self-esteem, because we’re already supposed to have all the power…. But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They’re drones. They do stuff they don’t want to do to support their families, and they’re not sure why they do it. They don’t know what they’re doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we’re pigs because we don’t know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.” ~ Tim Allen
- “What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I’ve spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don’t chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they’re just trying to tell us something.” ~ Dan Kieran
- “I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.” ~ Rand Paul
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“The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That’s a long trip for Joe Biden.” ~ Jay Leno
- “When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early ’90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn’t want to, because they had no pilots.” ~ Robert M. Gates , Drones quotes pilot
- “What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you’re going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by… or frowning at a phone and going ‘aaah! Oh no! I’ve just deleted my own leg!’ or whatever. So I thought well, let’s not do that.” ~ Charlie Brooker
- “Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one’s companion.” ~ Franz Grillparzer
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“But I don’t want to be a vampire drone.’ Sophronia winced. ‘They’ll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.” ~ Gail Carriger
- “Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.” ~ Thomas Hood
