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Quotes About Defense

There's no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense
~ James Scott
A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.
~ Don Herold
I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
~ Chris Killip
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Lay off her Ben, yelled Jake. Cally registered that he was defending her. "She's doing her best!" "Her best? That'll look good on our tombstones. RIP Bond Team—Cally did her best!
~ A.J. Butcher
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended... It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In lieu of Tasers, you'll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I'll turn into a bat to get away from you. Fight or flight. Yes. Only half of that is flight.
~ Adam Rex
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all
~ Adam Smith
In my defense I have only silence, dew on the grass, a nightingale among the branches. You forgive it, its long tenure in the leaves of one aspen after another, drops of eternity, grams of amazement, and the sleepy complaints of the poor poets
~ Adam Zagajewski
Each poor immigrant girl had a plan in place to survive. Some had brothers or fathers for protection, others, young husbands; but for all of them, the first line of defense was their scissors.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Somewhere in my past, I learned that if you separate yourself, you don't get hurt. Pain can be avoided.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I wonder if he knows that every time I make a joke, a little piece of my heart breaks off. It's just self-defense. It seems whenever we get close, he leaves.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.
~ Aeschylus
United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.
~ Aesop
She retreats to a sad but oddly comforting and familiar place inside her head where she hides when others let her down (as they tend to do) and takes comfort in books and music. She is an expert in self-protection and defence; she has been in training for much of her life.
~ Alain de Botton
At the heart of stoicism lay the desire to disappoint oneself before someone else had the chance to do so. Stoic­ism was a crude defense against the dangers of the affections of others, dangers that would take more endurance than a life in the desert to be able to face.
~ Alain de Botton
Unemployment in America became, almost overnight, a thing of the past as the Federal government pumped billions of dollars into defense.
~ Alan Brennert
I always keep this handy...for close encounters. (Cpl. Hicks)
~ Alan Dean Foster
Until then, we're society's only protection. We keep it up long as we have to. Protection? Who are we protecting them from?
~ Alan Moore
Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Animals fight to save their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Fear is taught by grown up men and beasts to their young. Once we learn to be afraid, we rarely shake off the habit, and I believe our fear frightens other beasts causing them to attack us.
~ Dhan Gopal Mukerji