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Quotes About Defense

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.
~ Unknown
The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run.
~ John Barrymore
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
~ Winston Churchill
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.
~ Malcolm X
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
~ James Stephens
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
~ Unknown
Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
~ Mark Warner
Shock is the body's defense system when the input we are receiving would otherwise blow our minds.
~ Unknown
I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right.
~ Martha Wells
The problem with gunships is they want to shoot at stuff.
~ Martha Wells
That's how SecUnits are taught to fight: throw your body at the target and kill the shit out of it
~ Martha Wells
The company had never given us armor that nice, though in its defense, our armor did get blasted off us at regular intervals.
~ Martha Wells
The hostile that had just exploded up out of the ground had a really big mouth, so I felt I needed a really big gun.
~ Martha Wells
One of them started toward me. I said, "I assume you're about to try to install another combat override module and send me back to kill them." I opened my gun ports and expanded the weapons in my arms, then folded them back in. "I don't recommend that course of action.
~ Martha Wells
What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening the use of nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves.
~ Martin Amis
The multi-faceted defense of a certain notion of benign mimesis both in Critical Theory and the work of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe has also attracted attention, as have certain affinities with Lacan's critique of ego psychology.
~ Unknown
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.
~ Martin Van Creveld
The evil enemy will then begin to accuse them, and bring forward everything that he can against them. But the guardian Angel will defend his client, he will produce all his good works, his penances, his virtues, and lay them in the scales of Divine justice.
~ Unknown
there is much that you can do to protect yourself – and in doing so strengthen your nation.
~ Unknown
his hand on hit sword because he knew he lay in enemy country.
~ Unknown
Security puts a premium on feebleness.
~ Unknown
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
~ Anonymous
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense
~ Unknown