Quotes about Onslaught

a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

A great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet.

And thick and fast they came at last,And more, and more, and more—All hopping through the frothy waves,And scrambling to the shore.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.