Quotes About Defense

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she'd be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

When did you get so bossy, Ms. Baird?" "Self-defense against a certain T-Rex.

He's built to protect, to shield, and they made him a killer.

Their chemistry was a thing of erotic beauty, his sexual experience a weapon against which she had no defense.

Though her breathing had gone shallow, she moved like lightning, her legs scissoring to take out those of the stupid, stupid man who'd stood so close to her.

The idea of ever again being caught unarmed and vulnerable was her worst nightmare.

early as 1775, landless tenants in Loudoun County, Virginia, voiced a complaint that was common across the sprawling colony: there was "no inducement for the poor man to Fight, for he had nothing to defend.

Psalm 94:22 tells us, "The Lord is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

trying to protect the foreign hotels. They're advancing slowly, armed with

In recent years, something we now all depend on—the Internet, originally ARPANET—was developed as a complex collaboration of universities, government agencies, and industry, funded largely by the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Barry Goldwater famously argued that extremism in the defense of liberty was no vice. Our story will show that it is.

And this brings us to the crux of our story, the pivot around which these diverse actors came together. The link that unites the tobacco industry, conservative think tanks, and the scientists in our story is the defense of the free market.

To plan to reserve cavalry for the finish of the battle, is to have no conception of the power of combined infantry and cavalry charges, either for attack or for defense.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault." "[...] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.

When you have a chest of jewels, you don't walk around it. You plant yourself on the lid with a weapon in your hand.

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

Denis Waitley, the author of The Psychology of Winning and The Joy of Working, who defines procrastination as "a neurotic form of self-defensive behavior" aimed at protecting one's self-worth.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.