Quotes About Defense

Since any defense of reason, science, and humanism would count for nothing if, two hundred and fifty years after the Enlightenment, we're no better off than our ancestors in the Dark Ages, an appraisal of human progress is where the case must begin.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Did i say something wrong?" "Well, in your defense, there is no right thing to say.

Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything — anything — to defend ourselves against that return.

With their capacity for aggression strait-jacketed within a too-narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self-sacrificing (and naïve and exploitable) cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and appropriately self-protective anger necessary to defend themselves.

algunas personas siguen siendo objeto de abusos porque no responden a la agresión.

Freud catalogued an extensive list of phenomena akin to repression—the active rejection of potentially conscious psychological material from awareness—which he termed "defense mechanisms.

Fortify Your Position

Recognizing protective behavior is an important stage of exploration. Protections are strategies we use to keep our unconscious fears from consciousness.

La gente te hace daño cuando sabe que puede hacerte daño. Si le quitas la oportunidad, la desarmas.

Curiosamente defendía a su madre. No podía culparla. Se había visto empujada a hacer cuanto hizo. Quererla representaba una deuda, un pago, su propio compromiso. Y la posibilidad de facilitarle la paz interior.

Quizá sea verdad que no piensas en nada, aunque no pensar en nada justamente en los momentos más íntimos es una defensa, Inés, una huida que te mantiene la mente en blanco, bloqueada por la ausencia de tu ser para que el miedo y las preguntas no se inscriban en ti...

Antes todo se hacia con los puños: ahora, la fuerza está en el saber, más que en los puñetazos; aunque es bueno aprender a defenderse, porque siempre hay gente bestial en el mundo, y porque la fuerza da salud, y porque se ha de estar pronto a pelear, para cuando un pueblo ladrón quiera venir a robarnos nuestro pueblo.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

Knowing that masks donned in time could protect against gas, they began loading shells with sneezing powder, which seeped through the masks' filters.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not butter

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself.

So how does the new learning that occurs in extinction (learning of the CS–no US association) prevent the expression of the original memory (CS-US association) and the defense responses it controls? To

Bees are a warrior's greatest enemy.