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Quotes About Defends

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.
~ Justin Trudeau
I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people's minds from getting hijacked.
~ Tristan Harris
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
~ Maimonides
The word violence comes from roots that mean "the undue use of force." Thought that imposes or defends is violent.
~ William Isaacs
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
~ Nathalie Sarraute
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
~ Robert South
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
~ George Crabbe
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
No science ever defends its first principles.
~ Aristotle
Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
~ Leonardo Boff
Limbaugh has taught millions of Americans about conservative ideology, emphasizing the Constitution and the country's founding ideals, and suffered attacks from the left as a result. He is a folk hero who is beloved in part because he defends tens of millions of Americans against attacks.
~ Mollie Hemingway
The panda is a funny, lovable animal, which defends its territory well. It's strong but calm. It suits me perfectly.
~ Metta World Peace
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
By and large, pity runs counter to the law of development, which is the law of selection. Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life. […] In the middle of our unhealthy modernity, nothing is less healthy than Christian pity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.
~ Mark McKinnon
As the origin and basis of all religions, it cannot be the antagonist of any: it is indeed their purifier, revealing the valuable inner meaning of much that has become mischievous in its external presentation by the perverseness of ignorance and the accretions of superstition; but it recognises and defends itself in each, and seeks in each to unveil its hidden wisdom.
~ besant annie vii
When Trump defends Planned Parenthood as doing 'wonderful things,' he is condoning the organization. Even if Planned Parenthood didn't do abortions, none of these 'wonderful things' are worthy of taxpayer funding. But thanks to Trump, the lie of Planned Parenthood's heroism has been further proliferated.
~ Katie Pavlich
This means the party demands dishonesty as a trait of membership—unless you are a rare sociopath who defends pathological lying.
~ Stuart Stevens
Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration.
~ Stephen Alford
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~ Bronson Alcott
The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does.
~ Matteo Salvini