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Quotes About Defense

As Nachmanides championed the cause of Maimonides against his enemies, so he took up the cause of Alfazi, against Sarachya Halevi and Abraham Ben David, who attacked Alfazi's Talmudic productions.
~ William Rosenau
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
~ William S. Burroughs
Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
~ William Shakespeare
God defend the right!
~ William Shakespeare
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed.
~ William Wilberforce
The soft underbelly of the Axis.
~ Winston Churchill
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
~ Winston Churchill
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
~ Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.
~ Winston Churchill
Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.
~ Wolf DeVoon
Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.
~ Woodrow Wilson
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's 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.
~ x malcolm
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.
~ x malcolm vi
Chinese troops did not engage the US forces in ground warfare in the South but provided military assistance to the NVA and NLF in air defense, combat engineering, railroad and highway construction and maintenance, and communication network establishment in the North; and finance and logistics in the South.
~ Xiaobing Li
The Maoist politicization of warfare in the 1950s conceptualized a new strategy of active defense.
~ Xiaobing Li
Many PLA officers sent to Vietnam had fought in the Korean War, or in Mao's words, the war to "resist America, aid Korea, defend the homeland, and safeguard the country."18 The Chinese generals recalled their fighting in Korea as a heroic defense and a continuity of their own struggle against the world imperialism. Chinese history books portray China as a "beneficent victor" of the Korean War.19
~ Xiaobing Li
If he had attacked me outright, I might have been able to defend myself. Instead, he exposed my secret as if offering himself to me. I was left mute, listening to my heart pounding in my chest.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
~ Yagyu Munenori
Istilah Tanpa Pedang tidak selalu terletak pada keharusan mengambil pedang lawan. Juga tidak berarti mempertunjukkan pedangmu sendiri dan menjadikan dirimu terkenal karenanya. Tanpa Pedang berarti tidak diserang lawan, walaupun kau sendiri tidak memiliki pedang.
~ Yagyu Munenori
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
~ Yann Martel
Every source of blessing is a point of attack.
~ David McGee
When they no longer need parental support, they also no longer need the defense mechanisms that blinded them (in order to keep them feeling secure) to their parents' failings.
~ David P. Celani
This is the great paradox of defense mechanisms: they protect us from crushing anxiety during our childhoods, but then become an integral part of our personality that often damages us in adulthood.
~ David P. Celani
how effective would, say, a vitamin E capsule or a tablet of vitamin C be when confronted by this onslaught of free radicals? Common
~ David Perlmutter