Defense Quotes - Page 37

• Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Revolutionary, Courses

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• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Judging

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• Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Spring, Men, Moral

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• The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Character, Action, Virtue

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.819, Macmillan

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• Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He's as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.

  Chuck Norris

  Religious, Church, Liberty

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• WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Father, America, Atheism

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• To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
  People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
  Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Enemy, Painting

  Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Pablo Picasso (1983). “Pablo Picasso”, Harry N. Abrams

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• It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

  William Gurnall

  Believe, Temptation, Saint

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Army

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Attitude, People

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• The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Democracy

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.241, Soft Skull Press

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• The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

  Roger Angell

  Partisanship, Expertise

  "An Interview With Roger Angell: 'They Look Easy, But They're Hard'". Interview with Jared Haynes, thestacks.deadspin.com. 1992.

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• Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

  Jeff Cooper

  Doe, Environment, Assault

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Self, Dignity

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.

  Jeff Cooper

  Self Defense, Explosives

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Perfect, Succeed

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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• The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.

  Samuel Adams

  Eye, Army, Past

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.

  Simon Sinek

  Powerful, Passion, World

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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• Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Fighting, People

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2011

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• To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

  R. C. Sproul

  Party, Past, Talking

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• Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Determination, Flower, Land

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.119, South End Press

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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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