Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.

Senator Biden was correct by calling for more to look into Governor Cuomo's defense policy. It is clear to me, by researching the governor's record on the issue, that he would be a wildcard on national defense issues.

She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

The best form of self defense is to become invisible... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun!

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

The best defense is a good story.

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.