Assault Quotes · Page 6

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country.

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

— Dianne Feinstein

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

— Vikram Chatwal

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

— Glenn Greenwald

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

— Christine Pelosi

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

— Karl Abraham

And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to…

— Thomas Goddard Bergin

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background…

— Bernie Sanders

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have…

— Jim Goad

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct…

— Paul Keating

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will…

— Albert Wynn

I think, Russia is pushing against the West in general, not just the United States but the institutions of the West, the…

— Daniel Fried

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and…

— Walter Benjamin

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years…

— Anonymous

I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in…

— Dave McGinnis

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

— Howard Zinn

While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity…

— Anna Kavan

Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is…

— Ali Sina

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as…

— Marcel Proust

Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether…

— Anonymous

If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

— Steve Marmel

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

Every time John Travolta assaults a masseur, a scientologist gets their wings.

— Chelsea Handler

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.

— Ayelet Waldman

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

— Pamela Geller

“People’s judgments, criticisms and power games won’t hit you as hard when your plan is greater than the assault.”

— Chris Erzfeld

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

— Sheryl Crow

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Emma Sulkowicz

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Jackson Katz

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

— Joe Manchin

“He threatened Liam with assault, that’s why I didn’t go to the police. I couldn’t put it on my dad.”

— Stephanie John