Assault Quotes

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. (John Maynard Keynes)
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault How few themselves in that just mirror see. View quote
Edward Young
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. View quote
Mark Twain
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. View quote
Voltaire
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse. View quote
Howard Zinn
Why can't a Democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'The catcher in the rye' and 'Harry Potter? View quote
Moby
I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them. View quote
Wesley Clark
Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. View quote
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security. (Paul Keating)
What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women. View quote
Camille Paglia
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others. View quote
Camille Paglia
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. View quote
Bell hooks
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered." View quote
Plutarch
They say music can alter moves and talk to you. Well can it load a gun up for you and cock it too WIll if it can and the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge it was my fault...and I'll get sued. View quote
Eminem
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. View quote
Mark Twain
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. View quote
Matt Ridley
If the heart is not occupied with study, it cannot endure the turbulence of the body's assault. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? (Rick Riordan)
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. View quote
Frances Mayes
You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection. View quote
Brandon Mull
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. View quote
Albert Wynn