Assault Quotes

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

Laughter, Nothing, Against

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Head, Lead

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire

Thinking, Problem, Withstand

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia

Nature, Art, Moment

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
Jon Meacham

Work, Great, Future

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
Pat Robertson

War, Judge, Human

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes

Life, Him, Down

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Keanu Reeves

Funny, Mind, Pretty

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
Kesha

Long, Show, Manner

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
David Mamet

Political, Ignorant, Guns

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.
Fred Durst

Single, Same, Another

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Science, Human

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
Noam Chomsky

Power, War, Democracy

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
Michael Haneke

Movies, Another, Viewer

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.
Leon Panetta

Everything, Place, Military

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
Bianca Jagger

Human, Law, Away

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow

Making, Writers, Anonymity

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.
Joe Manchin

Anyone, Goes, Hunting

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Barry Commoner

War, After, Modern

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
Angela Davis

Result, Labor, Movement

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
Joe Eszterhas

Big, Smoking, Used

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
Stephen Lewis

Women, Men, Able

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Best, Care

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.
Mohammed Morsi

Insult, Against, Reject

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Two, Against, Values

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
Mark Udall

Society, Place, Military

The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.
Ed Markey

Work, Country, Here

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
Michael Nutter

Serious, System, Weapons

You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
Michael Nutter

Why, Place, Able

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
Lisa Edelstein

Health, Women, Through

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