Driven Bigoted Assault

Famous quotes containing the words driven, bigoted and/or assault:

    Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)