Assault Quotes - Page 19

• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

  Huey Newton

  Thinking, Goes On, Earth

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.

  David Cannadine

  Book, Historical, Steps

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Empowering, Forever, Finals

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• There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Struggle, Character, Men

  "Futurism: An Anthology" edited by Laura Wittman, Christine Poggi, Yale University Press, (p. 52), 2009.

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• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Equality, Erosion, Liberty

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• Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

  Jim C. Hines

  Bullying, People, Giving

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• In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, the first things to show up were the wild beasts.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Giving Up, People

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• I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

  Jack Tatum

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

  John Fugelsang

  Gun, Assault Weapons, President

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2013

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• According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

  Gary Kleck

  Mean, Gun, Justice

  "Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research". Article by Gary Kleck, 1986.

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• Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

  Roger Ebert

  Eye, Cutting, Common Sense

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.22, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  Edward Young

  Time, Mirrors, Justice

  Edward Young (1813). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.73

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

  Pamela Geller

  Freedom, Savages, Speech

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