Defense Quotes - Page 2

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

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.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

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.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

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

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'