Quotes About Defense

A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

None within this Last Redoubt can be alone. Our enemies are ever with us, unsleeping, tireless, horrid.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

This was why I published the Institutes — to defend against unjust slander my brothers whose death was precious in the Lord's sight. A

How to defend yourself against a banana

Often silence is a powerful weapon. If we only knew how valiantly it could serve us in defense we should use it more. Under abuse or attack it may be the sign of guilt; but it may also be a proof of innocence and an unmistakable evidence of nobility.

Soldiers defending a country at war are not subject to the rules of procedure designed for court trials. For example, if a soldier encounters an enemy, under internationally agreed upon rules of war, that soldier can take whatever action is necessary to protect himself and neutralize his enemy, whether it involves capturing and detaining the enemy or killing him on the spot.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

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.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn't. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet's random geological savagery.

Every one of these claims embodies a metaphysical assumption, and science, since its very method presupposes them, could not possibly defend them without arguing in a circle. Their defense is instead a task for metaphysics, and for philosophy more generally; and scientism is shown thereby to be incoherent.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Forgiveness is not turning the other cheek. Forgiveness is not running away. Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what the person has done, nor does it mean that you invite them to do it again. It doesn't mean that you forget the offense, nor does it mean that by forgiving you tacitly invite bad things to happen again. It doesn't mean that you won't defend yourself.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Fear attracts attack.

Further, if we are honest, nearly all of us who have hair on our chins or the prospect of it must admit to a built-in interest in fighting and the implements of fighting.

The enmity of your enemy teaches you to defend yourself and your interests.

The political leadership is a significant spirit and defence of the armed forces of any state; whereas, the armed forces are a protective shield for them. Both are compulsory for each other, as the political leadership one point, and the armed forces a zero point, which becomes ten points. Otherwise, it stays one or zero, establishing nothing.

When holding is not adequate, when the infant/body is intruded upon or neglected—or worse, abused—stimulation is too intense for the infant/body self. Its only recourse is to stop being conscious and present, thereby developing a habit of "dissociating" as a defense. Overstimulation at this age also interrupts self-development. All energy must be directed toward keeping the world from intruding. The whole world is dangerous.

Achieving and then losing again can be more painful than not achieving at all, which is why many children of narcissists do so little. Barely functioning defends us from loss.