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Quotes About Assault

You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the assault weapons of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment — just as assault weapons
~ Charlton Heston
I was sexually assaulted at seventeen. I was naïve and I didn't understand it. Anxiety became a deep part of my life, and it almost pulled me under. Trudging onward was all I could do. I've made peace with it.
~ Cheryl Strayed
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
~ Haim G. Ginott
He practiced the code of swift reprisal that was almost universally practiced by the Indians themselves: Failure to strike back, he understood, would only be interpreted as weakness and inevitably lead to an even bolder assault.
~ Hampton Sides
hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot
~ Lee Childs
It disturbed Eve, though, that Claire believed that a young female detective would be more motivated than a man to investigate the sexual assault of a woman. Was there any merit to that belief?
~ Lee Goldberg
Madame, lei ha una barricata che assalterei volentieri, se non fossi in là con gli anni e ormai disabituato al servizio militare». « Signore! » rispose la vedova senza distogliere lo sguardo dal suo lavoro d'intreccio. «La sua gentilezza mi fa onore»
~ Leo Perutz
We could track down a gang guy wanted for armed robbery and assault." "That sounds like a lot of fun, but I might have to pass on account of I don't want to die right now." "We could visit some of Sunny's relatives and ask if he's staying with them." "Ditto for the above reason.
~ Janet Evanovich
If a boy pings a girl's bra it may be unpleasant and annoying, but is it really assault?
~ Claire Fox
Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.
~ Anne Applebaum
Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms - the unwritten conventions that make governance possible. But even before he decided to run for president, those norms were under assault.
~ Cass Sunstein
She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.
~ David Gest
I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!
~ Aretha Franklin
Indiana embraced him, even after news of his assault had made its way into the state.
~ Timothy Egan
But what if what the working class—white, black, Hispanic, etc.— needs most isn't a check from the government but inclusion in community? And what if the most accessible form of community—the church—is under constant assault by both culture and the government? And finally, what if the elites frowning upon the deplorable poor won't include them in their community, citing their deplorability?
~ Timothy P. Carney
blitzkrieg.
~ Pat Conroy
Satan is our chief enemy, and his primary target is our knowledge of and trust in God. Satan's constant assault is aimed at our belief in God's goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways.
~ Dallas Willard
Admiral," said Gladstone, "is it absolutely necessary to destroy the singularity sphere as soon as the Ousters have penetrated our cordon sanitaire? Couldn't we wait another few minutes to judge their intentions?" "No, CEO," answered the Admiral promptly. "The farcaster link must be destroyed as soon as they are within quick assault range.
~ Dan Simmons
Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.
~ Rosa DeLauro
Nietzsche remained pious and puritan, chaste as a statue, to the last: therefore his assault on Puritanism and piety. How he longed to be a sinner, this incorrigible saint!
~ Will Durant
The united nations is the most concentrated assault on moral reality in the history of free institutions, and it does not do to ignore that fact or, worse, to get used to it.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Do you mean you were attacked from behind?
~ Christa Faust
What followed seemed barely unbelievable, in the sense that Europe reeled from an assault that seemed impossible, heretical, demonic.
~ Leonie Frieda
There is no good reason that a girl is shamed for sexting while a boy is not, that a woman's number must be lower than a man's, that a survivor of sexual assault has her credibility stolen from her along with her bodily integrity. For women to be truly safe, we must eradicate the use of the term "slut." Only then will female sexuality become transformed from a site of pitfalls to one of positivity and possibility.
~ Leora Tanenbaum