Famous quotes containing the words driven, bigoted and/or assault:
“I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)
“Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)