Defense famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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 -
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
-- Adolf Galland -
Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
-- Al Attles -
They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.
-- Al Davis -
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
-- Alan Cranston -
In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
-- Alan Hansen -
As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There‟s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.
-- Alfred Bester -
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
-- Alice Miller -
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.
-- Andrew Bogut -
Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
-- Andy Van Slyke -
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
-- Ani DiFranco -
We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.
-- Anna Lindh -
You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
-- Astrid Lindgren -
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
-- Ayn Rand -
I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
-- Barack Obama -
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice
-- Barry Goldwater -
There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
-- Barry Goldwater -
Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
-- Barry Zito -
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell -
The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell -
We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.
-- Beth Moore -
We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.
-- Bill Cowher -
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.
-- Bill James -
They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.
-- Bill Laimbeer -
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense
-- Bill Walton -
When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
-- Blake Shelton -
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.
-- Bob Barr -
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
-- Bobby Knight -
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
-- Bobby Knight -
Good basketball always starts with good defense!
-- Bobby Knight -
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
-- Bruce Lee -
Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.
-- Bruce Lee -
With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
-- Bryan Cranston -
Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.
-- Bryan Fischer -
The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.
-- C.S. Friedman -
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
-- Carl Jung -
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
-- Cesare Pavese -
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.
-- Charles Bass -
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
-- Charles Eliot Norton -
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.
-- Charles Evans Hughes -
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
-- Charles I of England -
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
-- Charles I of England -
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.
-- Chester Himes -
Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
-- Christopher Dodd -
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
-- Christopher Lasch -
In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.
-- Christopher Meloni -
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
-- Chuck Connors -
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.
-- Cornelia Meigs -
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
-- Dan Gelber -
There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
-- Dan Marino -
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.
-- Daniel Drezner -
I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.
-- Dave Morin -
I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.
-- David E. Hoffman -
The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.
-- David Farragut -
Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
-- David Gelernter -
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
-- David Korten -
Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.
-- David Robinson -
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
-- Dean Koontz -
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.
-- Diana Trilling -
We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).
-- Dick Bennett -
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.
-- Diodorus Siculus -
If you're not talking, you're not playing defense
-- Doc Rivers -
If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'
-- Doc Rivers -
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.
-- Don Kates -
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
-- Don Nickles -
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.
-- Eddie Sutton -
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
-- Edward Bernays -
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
-- Edward Rutledge -
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
-- Elyn Saks -
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.
-- Emma Bull -
Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.
-- Eric Bolling
