Defense Quotes - Page 35

• So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Hands, Safety, Preparation

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.

  Diane Duane

  Mother, Hero, Fighting

  Diane Duane (2003). “High Wizardry”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  People, Decision, Facts

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Block, Sea

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish defenses against it. The other is that you kill all the terrorists and all the potential terrorists.

  Jude Wanniski

  Order, Two, Mind

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• One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Thinking, Intellectual, Twenties

  Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.135, PublicAffairs

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• They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

  Al Davis

  Want, Said, They Said

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• We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!

  Carl T. Rowan

  Home, Gun, Law

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• Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

  Adam Kokesh

  Marine, Self, United States

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• There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but  many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought  a great deal about the subject and distilled its essence in a way that is wholly admirable.

  Robert Twigger

  Book, Self, Essence

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• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

  John Welwood

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

  Barbara Sher

  Jobs, Swimming, Thinking

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• This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.

  W. R. Thompson

  Men, Criticism, Doctrine

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• When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.

  Betsy Lerner

  Sex, Revenge, Book

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in the region and (2) to not let our enthusiasm for rebellion lead to cheering on the cruise missiles from US warships. These two sirens should worry us as we make our hesitant way alongside the rebirth of a New Left in the Arab world.

  Vijay Prashad

  Cheer, Two, Worry

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• We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

  Beth Moore

  Giving, Needs, Belief

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• When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
  is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
  to be mourned,
  but as an act of citizenship,
  to be vaunted,
  there is little civilian life left.

  Jill Lepore

  Self, Littles, Weapons

  "Battleground America". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2012.

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• A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tyranny, Wells, Informed Citizenry

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• Abortion is an act of self-defense.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Abortion, Self Defense

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• The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Spiritual, Military, Dark

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• Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

  Carl Jung

  Religion

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• America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

  Robin Sloan

  America, Google, Aircraft Carriers

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

  Ice T

  Brother, Betrayal, Dirty

  Ice-T, Douglas Century (2011). “Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood”, p.163, One World

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• Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

  Widad Akrawi

  Opportunity, People, Mind

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• I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hurt, Believe, Feelings

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