Assault Quotes
279 quotes by 240 authors
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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…
— Mark Udall
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Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.
— Terry Gross
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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…
— Samuel Dash
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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…
— David Horowitz
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Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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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…
— Paul Keating
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I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.
— Richard L. Hanna
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The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.
— Henry H. Arnold
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Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and…
— Klaus Topfer
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In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness…
— Thomas Berry
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Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult…
— Barry Commoner
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There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not…
— Robert Byrd
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Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.
— Dianne Feinstein
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A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not…
— Greg Smith
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Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical…
— Jewel
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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.…
— Rachel Carson
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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
— Rachel Carson
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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew…
— Thomas Aquinas
Who Wrote These Assault Quotes
240 authors contributed a total of 279 Assault Quotes, led by these top contributors: