Famous quotes containing the words driven, bigoted and/or assault:
“It seems
you that is lifted
limp and ardent
off the dark snow
and shoved in, and driven away.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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)