Defense Quotes - Page 6

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

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.

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

There is no defense against the base on balls.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.

You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

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.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.