Defense Quotes

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

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

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

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.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

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.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.