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Quotes About Defense

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
~ June Jordan
No matter what the fuck he pulled-and my brother pulled a lot of shit-she was always a hundred percent on his side, as only a Latin mom can be with her querido oldest hijo. If he'd come home one day an said, Hey, Ma, I exterminated half the planet, I´m sure she would have defended his ass: Well, hijo, we were overpopulated.
~ Junot Diaz
Last night they came again. The soldiers had set up a defense perimeter, but there were simply too many—they must have come by the hundreds of thousands, a huge swarm that blotted out the stars. Three soldiers killed, as well as Cole. He was standing right in front of me; they actually lifted him off his feet before they bored through him like hot knives through butter. There was barely enough of him left to bury.
~ Justin Cronin
If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.
~ Justina Chen Headley
Socrates, Plato's teacher, had been condemned to death, as an incredulous corrupter of youth. Plato wrote several dialogues in his defense, and by the first century Socrates was considered one of the greatest sages of antiquity.
~ Justo L. González
Pan jeszcze wyrzÄ…dzi wiele krzywdy innym, pokaleczy Pan wiele osób, i to w obronie przed wÅ'asnymi obawami, wÄ…tpliwoÅ›ciami i podejrzeniami.
~ K. Bala
The lordship of Christ is basic to our defense of Christianity. Christ now reigns. He is Lord. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. That authority is the prerequisite to the command to make disciples. Without that authority, baptism and disciple making in and for the church are meaningless.
~ K. Scott Oliphint
Having preached the necessity of international control and openness in 1946, Oppenheimer by 1947 was beginning to accept the idea of a defense posture supported by a multitude of nuclear weapons.
~ Kai Bird
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
~ Warren Spector
Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.
~ Mike DeWine
Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
~ Gary Johnson
A great deal of the work I do involves the military.
~ Ander Crenshaw
Send Iran a clear message that if we are assaulted, we will meet it and trump it.
~ Virgil Goode
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
~ Douglas Hurd
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.
~ Ron Lewis
The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
~ Peter DeFazio
The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.
~ Elliott Abrams
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
~ David Byrne
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
~ Peter Jennings
Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.
~ Marine Le Pen
When we distinguish between Israel's right to defend itself and settlements, then we legitimize its security needs; when we distinguish between isolated settlements and the blocs, then we legitimize the settlement blocs.
~ Tzipi Livni
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
~ Oriana Fallaci
We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.
~ Volodymyr Zelensky
Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.
~ Elliott Abrams