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Quotes About Defense

In order to survive, the traumatized child's Real Self (True Self or Child Within) goes into hiding deep within the unconscious part of its psyche. What emerges is a false self or ego which tries to run the show of our life, but is unable to succeed because it is simply a defense mechanism against pain and not real. Its motives are based more on needing to be right and in control.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
"Safety First" is "Safety Always."
~ Charles M. Hayes
Fear of vikings build castles.
~ Charles Manson
You'll have to get your own lawyer, Dupree." "Where am I supposed to get him? I've called every son of a bitch in the yellow pages." A good lawyer, he thought, would be able to forestall the psychiatric examination at the prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri. That examination was what he feared most, and with good reason, even though the finding would no doubt have provided a solid defense.
~ Charles Portis
MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.
~ Charles Portis
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
~ Charles Schumer
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
~ Charles Vest
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
~ Charlie Sheen
Suggestion: when you find an intruder, it might be a good idea to raise the alarm.
~ Chelsea Cain
we must save the world as well. All from this library." Lincoln gave a crooked shrug. "There are worse places from whence to mount a defense of civilization.
~ Cherie Priest
The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security and defense." p. 53 – 54
~ Cheryl Hersha Lynn Hersha
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
~ Author Unknown
One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.
~ Theodore Millon
Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
~ H. L. Mencken
When most people use the word "I," they are in fact referring to their protector/controller.
~ Hal Stone
If you're going to run into your enemies, you better be with your friends, or have some that are close by, willing to be recruited.
~ Hal Whitehead
We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
Han behøver ikke være bange for indbrud og overfald. Døren er forsvarligt låset. Om den er låset udefra eller indefra kan for så vidt være ligegyldigt.
~ Hans Scherfig
As psychiatrist Donald Lunde puts it in his classic book Murder and Madness, the purpose of an insanity trial is to "separate the mad from the bad." American juries, however, as Lunde also points out, are often reluctant "to believe that someone who kills is mad rather than bad. In fact, many people suspect that the insanity defense is a ruse employed by clever lawyers in collaboration with naive psychiatrists to win an acquittal of an obviously guilty client.
~ Harold Schechter
For the most part, winning an acquittal with an insanity plea is so difficult that few defense lawyers attempt it. In the last hundred years, barely one percent of all felons brought to trial in this country have resorted to this tactic. And of that tiny minority, only one in three has been found NGRI ("not guilty by reason of insanity").
~ Harold Schechter
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
~ Harry Browne
Obviously the answer to the threat of communism (or any other enemy) is not a stronger government to defend us but just the opposite. We'd be far safer if there were no government to conquer.
~ Harry Browne
Means of destruction hitherto unknown, against which there can be no adequate military defense, and in the employment of which no single nation can in fact have a monopoly.
~ Harry S. Truman