Quotes About Defense

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. The news of our cosmic unimportance triggers impressive defense mechanisms in the human psyche.

Because I wanted to save women when mean people were trying to harm them.

To survive painful beliefs and feelings, we often mask them with anger. That way, we don't have to feel the shame behind it.

And mingled with her disbelief and resentment was another feeling, a question. Why hadn't she spoken that day? Why, in the face of Bellew's ignorant hate and aversion, had she concealed her own origin? Why had she allowed him to make his assertions and express his misconceptions undisputed? Why, simply because of Clare Kendry, who had exposed her to such torment, had she failed to take up the defense of the race to which she belonged?

A man only unsheathes his jambiyah if he is going to use it.

The least free people in a free society are people like us who have a sworn duty to defend the constitution.

I never realized the Department of Agriculture was involved in national security. Do you have, like, undercover cows?

defence on the Irene.

Si no se emplean en las misiones de paz, es difícil saber para qué sirven soldados, en una Europa que ha declarado la paz perpetua dentro de sus fronteras y que ya no es amenazada por Rusia.

That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.

Men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and so willing to deceive themselves, that they are rescued with difficulty from this pest. If they wish to defend themselves they run the risk of becoming contemptible.

no principality is secure without having its own forces;

and those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth.

And although it appears that the World has become effeminate and Heaven disarmed, yet this arises without doubt more from the baseness of men who have interpreted our Religion in accordance with Indolence and not in accordance with Virtu. For if they were to consider that it (our Religion) permits the exaltation and defense of the country, they would see that it desires that we love and honor her (our country), and that we prepare ourselves so that we can be able to defend her.

Before all else, be armed.

There cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

Cudza zbroja albo spada ci z pleców, albo ci??y, albo gniecie

You can't have good laws if you don't have good armed forces.

If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Everybody knows that I can play defense. I've showed at times that I can score, but I just think they want to know, 'How consistent are you in your moves?'

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

It is an important part of the role of a centre-back to focus on building up the game and initiating moves.