Armed Attacks

Famous quotes containing the words armed and/or attacks:

“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)