Defenseless Quotes

• The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Treats, Decent, Humans

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• The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Second Amendment, Unarmed

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• For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Fighting, Warrior

  "Follow the Money Deep Underground" by Shadi Rahimi, www.motherjones.com. December 2, 2008.

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• America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Blessed, Greatness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ethics And Morals, Morality, Moral Ethics

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• When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Strong

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• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  Kate Chopin

  Editors, Giving, Secret

  1899 'On Certain Brisk Days', in the St Louis Post -Dispatch, 26 Nov.

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• We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Douglas Horton

  Bending, Lifting Others, Fallen

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• I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

  Dick Dale

  People, Giving, Lions

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• We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

  Jacobo Timerman

  Peace, War, Madmen

  Jacobo Timerman (1982). “The longest war: Israel in Lebanon”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

  Timothy Keller

  Reflection, Years, Long

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

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• The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband at all costs, because while he was weak and practically defenseless—only allowed to move one square at a time—she was the strongest player on the board, hindered by no restrictions at all.

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Queens, Powerful

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.75, MIRA

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• I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, America, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.

  Robert Kegan

  Anxiety, Feelings, Half

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• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Evil, Doubt, Faces

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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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• I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Confused, Dark

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• Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Children, People

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• It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

  Rachel Field

  Weakness, Weak, Terrible

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.

  Unknown

  Views, Leaving, Population

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• When are you at your most defenseless?

  Anthony Horowitz

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Horowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You Never Read”, p.10, Penguin

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• Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Bully, Soul, Machines

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• The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Economic Inequality, Greed

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