Bulwarks Quotes

#1. Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Kim Stanley

#2. God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.

William Shakespeare

#3. It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. Glory be to God! the whole of the bulwarks of salvation are secured by divine power,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.)

David Mitchell

#7. Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Jameson

#8. Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny.

Barry Hughart

#9. Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

#10. If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.

James Bovard

#11. The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

C.L.R. James

#12. The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

Hilda Doolittle

#13. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

James Madison

#14. It is remarkable, when you consider it, all the complicated worlds we construct to avoid anything that might disturb us or cause us pain. The bulwarks and baffles we build up, the moats and the mazes.

Ben H. Winters

#15. When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Honore De Balzac

#16. If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

J.G. Holland

#18. With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#19. It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#20. Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Andres Serrano

#21. Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#22. Every soul aboard stood at the bulwarks or on the seats of the steamer and stared at that distant shape, higher than the trees or church towers inland, and advancing with a leisurely parody of a human stride.

H.G.Wells

#23. The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

George Mason

#24. I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing.

Larry Ellison

#25. In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will organize, and sweep out of office all Negro politicians who are puppets for the outside forces.

Malcolm X

#27. Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

Elizabeth Hurley

#28. When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.

Zelig Pliskin

#29. [Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Jeffrey Rosen

#30. If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes. Only then would you realize how special you are to me.

Anonymous

#31. Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

Vladimir Lenin

#32. Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.

Julian Fellowes

#33. Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

Gretchen Rubin

#34. Lust is the cause of generation.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#35. Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.

Dean Bakopoulos

#36. The queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation

Terry Pratchett

#37. In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

George W. Bush