Assault Weapon Ban

Famous quotes containing the words assault, weapon and/or ban:

    “Whenever reality reinforces a child’s fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as a physical attack or an assault on a child’s body, the child may regard it as such, and experience it as a confirmation of his fears that grown-ups under certain circumstances can really hurt you.”
    —Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)

    “What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “So in peace our tasks we ply,
    Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
    In our arts we find our bliss,
    I have mine and he has his.”
    —Unknown. Pangur Ban (l. 25–28)