Quotation Explorer - 'Defense'

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! - Patrick Rothfuss
Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home - J.M. Barrie
The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. - Anonymous
Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. - Mary Doria Russell
Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal - Murray N. Rothbard
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. - John Hersey
The best defense is to change and adapt without losing values and morals. - Debasish Mridha
If u know, Chess is the game that teach u about defense not strike.Enjoy ur tempo and win the game! - Maylanie Citra Liem
Humor is just another defense against theuniverse. - Mel Brooks
The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy. - Maulik Doshi
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. - George W. Bush
If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice - Sunday Adelaja
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. - Clarence Darrow
We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. - Tennessee Williams
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! - Barry M. Goldwater
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. - Ayn Rand
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. - Louisa May Alcott
Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay - Michael Oakeshott
Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom. - Mark Driscoll
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. - Homer
But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. 1 Peter 3:15 - Anonymous
The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth - Sunday Adelaja
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. - Holly Lisle
Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor... - Mahatma Gandhi
Look in Kego’s defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn’t for him.Jenny Smith In The Navigator by - Steve Merrick
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. - William S. Burroughs
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. - King Charles I
Humor is just another defense against the universe. - Mel Brooks
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. - Lawrence Clark Powell
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future. - Henry Luce
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. - Gary L. Francione
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. - Adam Smith
The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when truth is ridiculed. When God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth. - Sunday Adelaja
People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary. - David W. Earle
Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. - Rosalind Kaplan
Religion is a defense against the experience of God. - Carl Jung
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense. - Jean Shepherd
Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense. - Becca Fitzpatrick
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression. - Malcolm X
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. - Andrea Dworkin
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater
Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail. - John F. Kennedy
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. - Bill Moyers
You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said! - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. - Siegfried Sassoon
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. - Albert Einstein
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. - Martin Luther King Jr.
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor. - Niccolo Machiavelli
If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm... - Sunday Adelaja
The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it. - C. Kennedy
The power of the Blood of Jesus, the Word of God & the name of Jesus are the believers weapons of defense against the Devil. - Pazaria Smith
Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater
A leader cannot fall prey to the whims of the voices that shout the loudest, but must stand as a voice of reason in defense of the silent. - Saminu Kanti
There’s no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense - James Scott
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986) - Wendell Berry
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. - Dean Koontz
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife. - Elbert Hubbard
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