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Quotes About Defense

My bedroom's like an armoury.
~ Jeremy Irvine
Making America great again begins with making our military great again.
~ Mac Thornberry
I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.
~ Steve Easterbrook
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.* ANTHONY STORR, FEET OF CLAY
~ Jon Krakauer
As Goldwater would put it, capturing the conservative credo, "…extremism in defense of liberty—is—no—vice." (He added: "…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!")
~ Jon Meacham
He was one man screaming at 10,000 people screaming at him. He berated and scolded and called his attackers hypocrites at first, all this made them even more incensed. But he didn't budge. He was a tireless defender of himself.
~ Jon Ronson
After she died and Becky's mother pronounced her judgment, Becky understood what a survival mechanism disdain had been for her aunt, who had few other defenses against an uncaring world. For Becky herself, disdain was more of an emergency measure, taken only when someone directly tried to make her feel bad.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Su modestia y su anhelo de agradar eran tan duraderos que muchas noches comenzó por defensa y acabó por confesión, siempre al servicio de las inclinaciones del pueblo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
El sol de la mañana reverberó en la espada de bronce. Ya no quedaba ni un vestigio de sangre. —¿Lo creerás, Ariadna? —dijo Teseo—. El minotauro apenas se defendió. La casa de Asterión
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business.
~ A.A. Gill
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
~ A.E. Housman
Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.
~ A.E. Samaan
Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.
~ A.E. Samaan
One smirk, and you disassemble my armor.
~ A.E. Samaan
Committees were organized, most notably a defense committee, which gathered an impressive arsenal that included silver table knives and pocket knives, not to mention fireplace pokers and curtain rods. At lunch and dinner we consumed enormous quantities of caviar and vodka, for the hotel seemed to have infinite reserves of these, though bread was beginning to grow scarce.
~ Élisabeth Gille
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
~ Aaron Sorkin
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
~ Abraham Maslow
The adaptive immune system consists of lymphocytes and their products, such as antibodies.
~ Abul K. Abbas
The first thing you want to do after being shot is make sure you are not shot again.
~ Ace Atkins
that if you wish to destroy a nation you must first corrupt its currency. Thus must sound money be the first bastion of a society's defence.
~ Adam Fergusson
A shield. That's what the memories were, the ones that had risen in her with such force of late. A barricade thrown up against the depredations of the present.
~ Adam Haslett
Some men so needfully require complication, they find themselves defending their enemies.
~ Adam Levin