Assault Quotes

• I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, House

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, War, Political

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• All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

  Bell Hooks

  Silence, Racist, Faces

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 1995.

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• I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

  Sophia Loren

  Kindness, Real, Grief

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• We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Hurt, Defeat

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• 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

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

  Paul Begala

  Eye, Political, Enemy

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• I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.

  Cameron Diaz

  Self, Brutal, Comparison

  "New Day" with Paul Begala, Kate Bolduan, John Berman, Chris Cuomo and Carol Costello, edition.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

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• 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

  Jobs, Care, Defense

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• In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Equality, Facts, Nonsense

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.109, Harvard University Press

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• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Mark Steyn

  Relationship, Thinking, Government

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• 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

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• 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.

  Albert Wynn

  Gang Members, Years, Aggravation

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• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  Samuel Dash

  Mistake, Past, Government

  Samuel Dash (2004). “The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft”, p.152, Rutgers University Press

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• 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, Taken, Views

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

  Barry Commoner

  War, Years, Environmental

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  Iris Chang

  Writing, People, Liberty

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Education, Clever

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life, Philosophical, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.151, eKitap Projesi

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• 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

  Law, Walking Away, Rights

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• 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

  Country, Party, Rights

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• Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Business, Past

  "New Statesman and Nation" Magazine, July 15, 1933.

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• For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

  David Horowitz

  Years, Decision, Foundation

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