Defense Quotes - Page 7

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

Right is its own defense.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

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

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

I know we'll lead the league in defense.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.