Quotes About Defense

partisan of the governor, said angrily that the legislature would prevent the school from losing its accreditation. Phaedrus asked how. The student said they would post police to prevent it. Phaedrus pondered this for a while, then realized the enormity of the student's misconception of what accreditation was all about. That night, for the next day's lecture, he wrote out his defense of what he was doing. This was the Church of Reason lecture, which, in contrast

Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.

It is never really the case that stress makes you sick, or even increases your risk of being sick. Stress increases your risk of getting diseases that make you sick, or if you have such a disease, stress increases the risk of your defenses being overwhelmed by the disease.

Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear, said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself.

Extremism in defense of virtue is no vice.

He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack.

in intelligence work we have to go by capabilities, not by intentions. If a potential enemy can do something to you, you have to prepare for it, without regard to what you think he wants to do.

Strange. I would have thought that humor was an aspect of intelligence. No. Humor is associated with an interrupted defense mechanism. All the same— Speaker, no sapient being ever interrupts a defense mechanism.

A defense attorney, at least a good defense attorney, never tries to convince anyone of anything. We do the opposite. We remind everyone you can't know anything for sure.

Not that I'm saying that I didn't have a choice in working for them. I believe you always have a choice. And the choice I made was to defend people who, by law, deserve a proper defense. There's honor in that. I never lied to my family about

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery; it's like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.

you really did want the sleeping dogs to keep napping, because once they woke up they tried to tear your throat out.

It was like someone who is so used to being made fun of that they say the mean things first, try to make it their joke, so the bullies don't get a chance to cut them up. It works, in a way, but it means the person saying the words internalizes the message more, because they're the ones saying stupid, clumsy, fat, ugly—whatever the bullies might say.

The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

The U.S. has subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.

Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?