Assault Quotes · Page 6

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

— Jackson Katz

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

— Emma Sulkowicz

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war

— Kiera Cass

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

— Mark Twain

Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

— Glenn Reynolds

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

— William Butler Yeats

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

— Anonymous

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely…

— Osamu Dazai

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self.…

— Mary Daly

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond…

— Louise Slaughter

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and…

— Athol Fugard

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new…

— Erich von Manstein

The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real…

— Charles Krauthammer

If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent…

— Judith Butler

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the…

— Adam McKay

I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing…

— Bill Moyers

Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it…

— Barry Commoner

TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a…

— David Duchovny

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in…

— Alan Keyes

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more…

— Karl Marx

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His…

— Carlos Santana

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

— Kesha

“Some of the biggest assaults on my health have been from car crashes.”

— Steven Magee

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

— Plutarch

Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection

— Brandon Mull

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

— Barack Obama

If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.

— Jon Shenk

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

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

— Charles Schumer

“Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.”

— Bryant McGill

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army,…

— Wesley Clark

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

— George Takei

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

— Mohammed Morsi

Living in India in 2020, it's almost a daily assault on, you know, the erosion of our freedoms.

— Arjun Mathur

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by…

— Bell Hooks

I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer…

— Michael Haneke

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

— Pamela Geller