Quotes About Defense

Secure the defense by defending unattacked.

The enemy can be numerous, but we can stop the fight.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. [Chang Yu said: "Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive." He adds: "Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack." It would be hard to find a better epitome of the root-principle of war.]

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable

L'invincibilité se trouve dans la défense, la possibilité de victoire dans l'attaque.

the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

I think something quite dreadful has been happening to criticism in the arts, particularly in America, during the last twenty years. In an age which is so much dominated by technological advance, the methods and even the jargon of science and engineering have mistakenly been adopted not only by fringe disciplines like psychology and social studies but by many arts scholars who should have known better. from In Defense of the Artist in Signposts to Criticism of Children's Literature (1983)

Hypocrisy saves one's sanity. It's the shield you hide behind when the truth is too terrible to face

Photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

When it comes to defamation, slander, or libel, the truth is an absolute defense to the allegation.

repression, which "proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his actual ego [self]…. For the ego the formation of an ideal would be the conditioning factor of repression" (1914c, pp. 93-94).

Freud answers by suggesting that the harshness that can be shown by the superego is a result of the channelling of part of the id's destructiveness through the superego.

One of the surest means of preserving peace is always to be prepared for war.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Crutchley made no excuses. "The fact must be faced that we had an adequate force placed with the very purpose of repelling surface attack and when the surface attack was made, it destroyed our force.

Apologetics is not listed as a spiritual gift for teachers, preachers, or evangelists, as though only some ought to become apologists. Rather, all Christians are called to be ready with an answer (1 Peter 3:15; Jude 3). We all make a case for Christianity in some fashion or another—but are we doing it well?

The question is not whether we are apologists, but what kind of apologists we are.

It was only in Palo Alto that I searched "Rachav Binder" and "Rach Binder," got an undousable flame of her defense of an article of mine critical of the Mormon Church's databasing of Holocaust victims in order to speed their posthumous conversions

Besides the Hawk's own men, the men of the Wolf and the Dragon kept watch as well. Night and day,hour to hour, never eased for a oment,three warlord husbands kept guard over their beloved wives.Out beyond the harbor, boats patrolled. In the hills beyond Hawkforte, sentries stood their posts. No one entered the town without being indentified. No one came near the stronghold without being approved. At this rate,they would never catch Wolscroft.

Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen's right to defend himself or herself.

Mujeres somos y hemos de defendernos en un mundo mal guisado por hombres turbulentos y menguados de raciocinio.

Los ejércitos en sí mismos no son malos, lo que son malas son las guerras.

Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.