Attack

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
- Burrhus Frederick Skinner, 1904 - 1990

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 - 1863

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
- Gustave Flaubert, 1821 - 1880

The best form of defense is attack.
- Karl von Clausewitz, 1780 - 1831

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”
- Winston Churchill

“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack.”
- Sun Tzu

“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Virgil

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- Karl Kraus