Defenders Quotes - Page 9

• And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

  Rick Perry

  Challenging The Status Quo, Messages, Challenging Status Quo

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• When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

  Christine Pelosi

  San Francisco, Advice, Trying

  "Christine Pelosi's boot camp trains future politicians to avoid the campaign minefield" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2008.

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• Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

  William Hague

  Rights, Iran, Leader

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• Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Home, Men

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• My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.

  Elie Wiesel

  Loyalty, Mistake, Errors

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• The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history.

  Oscar Romero

  Struggle, Rights, Church

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• By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Healing, Perfect

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• Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.

  Ronaldinho

  Player, World, Quiet

  "Ronaldinho tells Sportsmail why England fail in tournaments, the best opponents he's faced and why Rooney would walk into the Brazil squad". Interview with Alex Kay, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

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• The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Mean, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Giving Up, Chess, Strategy

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.

  John Shelby Spong

  Differences, Dust, Order

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, Football, Games

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• Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Drama, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1264, Scholastic Inc.

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• The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

  Caleb Carr

  People, Decent, Disciple

  Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.171, Random House

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  Ninety Nine, People, Gossip

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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• From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Israel, Moral

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• A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

  Naomi Wolf

  Organization, Internet Freedom, Grassroots

  "Organising against the enemies of internet freedom" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

  Hanna Rosin

  Vegas, Justice, Soul

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• As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Book, Artist

  "The Mistakes in This Essay Are My Own" by John Maxwell Hamilton, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 1990.

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• We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can gather is currently in this room. Sin paused to look at Simi, Xirena, Damien, Kat, Kish, and Xypher. It was a pitiful number of defenders. But it was all the world had. In that case, we need to seriously arm ourselves. Damien crossed himself. Hail Mary, full of grace- What are you doing? Kish asked. You're not Catholic. Yeah but I'm feeling really religious all of a sudden and it seemed like a good idea.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Religious, Hate, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Devil May Cry”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Real, Europe

  Whitehall Palace Address on Iraq Policy, delivered 19 November 2003, Whitehall Palace -- London, England

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• The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

  Eban Goodstein

  Passion, Climate, Logic

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• He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

  Pamela Yates

  Artist, Rights, Filmmaker

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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