Quotes About Defenseless

the majority of people were sheep—gentle creatures largely incapable of protecting themselves. To

The thing about nightmares is that you can't prepare for them. They sneak up on you when you are most vulnerable, wreaking havoc and mayhem when you are totally defenseless. And they don't always happen while you're sleeping

It was strange watching somebody sleep. It felt intrusive, as if you had caught them at their most defenseless. And as you watched them, motionless, you couldn't help but wonder -if only for a moment- whether they had died, and watch furiously for signs of life

How can someone be abstractly defenseless?

We don't run away from people unless we fear them and... we don't fear them unless we know that we are unarmed.

He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against a possible blow, he cannot help wondering when the blow will fall.

He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against a possible blow, he cannot help wondering when the blow will fall. That is why I can say that for Franz, love meant the constant expectation of a blow.

The only explanation I can suggest is that for Franz, love was not an extension of public life but its antithesis. It meant a longing to put himself in the mercy of his partner. He who gives himself up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of defense against a possible blow, he cannot help wondering when the blow will fall. That is why I can say that for Franz, love meant the constant expectation of a blow.

Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se rinde, debe hacer previamente entrega de cualquier tipo de arma. Y si se queda sin defensa alguna ante un ataque, no podrá evitar preguntarse: ¿Cuándo llegará el ataque? Por eso puedo decir. Para Franz el amor significaba la permanente espera de un ataque.

O amor era pra ele o desejo de se abandonar às vontades e caprichos do outro. Aquele que se entrega ao outro como um soldado se constitui prisioneiro, deve antes entregar todas as armas. E, vendo-se sem defesa, não pode deixar de se indagar quando virá o golpe. Posso, portanto, dizer que o amor era para Franz a espera contínua do golpe.

Cel care se pred? altuia, soldatul care devine prizonier e dator, mai târziu, s? arunce toate armele de care dispune. ?i, V?zându-se lipsit de ap?rare, nu se poate st?pâni s? nu întrebe când anume se va produce lovitura. Pot spune, aÈ™adar, c? dragostea era, pentru Franz, o aÈ™teptare neîncetat? a loviturii.

Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se rinde, debe hacer previamente entrega de cualquier tipo de arma.

you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

The dead are ever refashioned, for they have no defence against those who would use or abuse them – who they were, what their deeds meant. And this was the anguish…this…injustice.

always targets the innocent.

Against defenseless people there is not much that nuclear weapons can do that cannot be done with an ice pick. And it would not have strained our Gross National Product to do it with ice picks.

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

Innocence is no earthly weapon.

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do, especially if the target is unprepared. I

He's tender and defenseless, as if every part of him is exposed. He's not the asshole I thought he was, not even close. What I see is someone broken and fierce. Someone loyal and hardened. Someone who could belong to me completely, and me to him.