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Quotes About Defense

what if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within the killer to a distant experience of threat and violence and led him for reasons that we had not yet fully defined to take angry measures in his own defense?
~ Caleb Carr
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Chapter 95 Fairfield, Connecticut – May 8, 2015 "No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
~ Calvin Coolidge
A cornered animal is almost as dangerous as a wounded one.
~ Cameron Dokey
Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?
~ Camron Wright
Of course I deprecate war," he wrote, "but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
~ Candice Millard
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
~ Carl Jung
neurosis is…a defence…or an attempt, somewhat dearly paid for, to escape from the inner voice and hence from the vocation…Behind the neurotic perversion is concealed his vocation, his destiny: the growth of personality, the full realization of the life-will that is born with the individual. It is the man without amor fati [love of fate] who is the neurotic; he, truly, has missed his vocation.
~ Carl Jung
The defense for too many details is simple: bring the context into conscious thought.
~ Gavin de Becker
Sending a sheep after a predator is merely home delivery
~ Gavin de Becker
An attorney named Albert Fink, who years later would defend Al Capone, would tip his hat whenever he passed a husky he particularly respected, and
~ Gay Salisbury
this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that
~ Gayle Forman
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his
~ Gen George S. Patton
It is not the American soldiers duty do die for his country. It is the American soldiers duty to make the enemy die for his country.
~ Gen. George S. Patton
Anya jumped in front of the man, acting as his shield. "Now, Sabin. He didn't mean any harm. He's borderline stupid. You know that.
~ Gena Showalter
But truth was truth, and like any apex predator, it could defend itself.
~ Gena Showalter
Either a large man with very quick reflexes and a deadly sword hat indeed, invaded her home. Or she needed intense psychotherapy.
~ Gena Showalter
No," he said, now in a voice with a touch of eloquence, "authority from God is not afraid of challengers, makes no defense, and cares not one whit if it must be dethroned. "That
~ Gene Edwards
You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.
~ Gene Edwards
The first basic principle of ??anti coup? defense is therefore to deny legitimacy to the putschists
~ Gene Sharp
There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself
~ Gene Sharp
Engage in friendly creative communication with the functionaries and troops serving the putschists while continuing resistance. Explain to them the reasons for the defense struggle, affirm the absence of ny intended violence against them, seek to undermine the reliability, and try to induce them to be helpful to the defenders.
~ Gene Sharp