Quotes About Defense

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

They both knew that the Massachusetts rape shield laws prevented defense attorneys from attacking a victim on the issue of consent. But they could attack her on other issues, like sexual history or reputation, which scared some victims off from reporting a rape.

the gimmickry is simply a device, a defense, to obscure the black, blinding, murderous rage and sorrow at the core of this whole story, which is both too black and blinding to look at ---avert your eyes!--- but nevertheless useful, at least to the author, even in caricatured or condensed form, because telling as many people as possible about it helps, he thinks, to dilute the pain and bitterness and thus facilitate its flushing from his soul

Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.

to take it easy," he said defensively.

The Iraqi army and the security forces are simply not ready.

Do you have good encryption

Or convincing defense departments to buy expensive war toys that were never even used while ignoring the lesser-priced items, like body armor and night-vision goggles, that grunts on the ground actually relied on to survive.