Defense Mechanisms Quotes

• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  Salman Rushdie

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  Garry Shandling

  Survival, Defense, Able

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• The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism.

  John Randolph Price

  Self, Order, World

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• As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

  Tim Conway

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Important, Islam

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• Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

  Mark Batterson

  Criticism, Defense, Nine

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• People use irony as a defense mechanism.

  David Byrne

  People, Defense, Use

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• My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Kids, Defense

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

  Anita Loos

  Character, Cities, Philadelphia

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.

  Vera Nazarian

  Tunnels, Perception, Vision

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Self, Healthy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

  Dan Brown

  Stress, Reality, Ego

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• ..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Forever, Mind

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• Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

  Monica Raymund

  Lying, Coping Mechanisms, Survival

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• 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

  Real, Defense, My Smile

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• Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Insecure, Ego, Defense

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.28, New World Library

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• I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

  Peter DeLuise

  Kids, Defense, Fats

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• Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

  Marc Maron

  Personality, Defense, Littles

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But I’m told it’s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose that’s rather the point.

  Ann Aguirre

  Pain, Self, Talking

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• What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

  Hans Zimmer

  World, Saving, Disruptive

  "Song: 'What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?' (Album: Man of Steel)". 2013.

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• I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

  Tim Hawkins

  People, Laughing, Guy

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• When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
  we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
  and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
  Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.

  Aaron Lines

  Taken, Humble, Biblical

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• All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

  Steven Erikson

  Art, Self, Risk

  "Why Did You Bother Telling Me That?: Steven Erikson Talks with Peter Orullian". Interview with Peter Orullian, www.tor.com. August 13, 2012.

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