Class Amphibious Assault

Famous quotes containing the words class, amphibious and/or assault:

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)

“swirling crustacean-
tailed equine amphibious creatures
that garnish the axle-tree! What
a fine thing! What unannoying
romance!”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)