Top 66 Defend Love Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Defend Love

#1. Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

#2. She tried to think of the right thing to say - something that would make him leave her alone. If she said she could defend herself he'd want her to prove it. But if she said she couldn't defend herself, then he'd take her out there to learn. This is so messed up.

Caroline Hanson

#3. All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Mordecai Richler

#4. If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Audre Lorde

#5. The idea that it's unloving to defend truth or confront lies is one of the arrogant opinions of this postmodern age that needs to be torn down (2 Cor. 10:5). Authentic love "rejoices with the truth" (1 Cor. 13:6).

Anonymous

#6. I spent the first twenty-five years of my life apologizing for people like Harald because we're family. Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love and I had a few reasons to defend Harald.

Stieg Larsson

#7. I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering ... I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Billy Graham

#8. I'll always defend the people I love even though I'm as terrifying as a baby penguin.

Niall Horan

#9. Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.

Tori Amos

#10. Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#11. Now there are five rules that separate Good from Evil, the gnome said, and wrote them in air with his smoking staff. 1. The Evil attack. The Good defend. 2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive. 3. The Evil hurt. The Good help. 4. The Evil take. The Good give. 5. The Evil hate. The Good love.

Soman Chainani

#12. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn't love.

Jerry Springer

#14. How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It's impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they're right. Maybe we don't know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

Ephrem The Syrian

#16. We must seek the truth, love it, defend it, and hand it down uncorrupted to our posterity.

Philipp Melanchthon

#17. Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

Sigmund Freud

#18. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Wendell Berry

#19. A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!

Jean Vanier

#20. The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

Widad Akreyi

#21. The thought of abandoning his friend to save himself was never an option. He collapsed, pushing even closer to Raimie. Pressing his lips against his friend's ear, he whispered, "As good a day to die as any." He would defend them until his end.

Wendy Owens

#22. I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

Paul Simon

#23. You pretend to be cold, but you love deeper than anyone I've ever seen. I've never heard of a shifter suppressing their wolf, yet you released her when you needed strength to defend your mom. When you learn to harness your wolf and combine it with your love and loyalty, you're a mate I'd die for.

A.P. Jensen

#24. You want to defend those you love, even if the ones you love aren't very good all the time. And sometimes they're even downright awful.

Annie Hartnett

#25. She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#26. Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#27. AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Og Mandino

#28. Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

Coco J. Ginger

#29. He taught me to fight, to defend myself, to stand up for what I believe in, and protect people I love. I thanked him for that lesson after that weekend in New Orleans when some guy put his hands on Delia, and I had to tear him apart.

Jolene Perry

#30. Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

Joaquim Nabuco

#31. The kind of love which makes us stand against everyone and defend a stranger is the strongest one.

M.F. Moonzajer

#32. The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

Allen West

#33. I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

Ralph Ellison

#34. Weapons could defend and also kill. Accident could strengthen or destroy. The choice was hers. ~ Lea

E. Mellyberry

#35. You view love and especially women ... as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#36. I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Brenda Perlin

#37. War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#38. My God. I love you so much that I'm drowning in it. I can't defend against it.

Lisa Kleypas

#39. So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,
My knight to defend my claimed heart.
I need no crown, just your last name and a ring
And the promise you'll never depart.

Phar West Nagle

#40. They scream, they cry, they love, they support, they defend, they listen. My fans are everything.

Michael Jackson

#41. God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webster

#42. In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair

George Monbiot

#43. I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth, to defend their families. Yet they stood mute and allowed their loved ones to die. I judged them harshly in my heart for that.

Kirby Crow

#44. [A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

Jonah Goldberg

#45. But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

Katherine Anne Porter

#46. You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.

Layne Staley

#47. All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.

Susana Fortes

#48. Please, for the love of all that is good:
Visit the countries you choose to defend, before you defend them.
Experience first hand the cultures you chose to defend, before you defend them.
Take part in the religions you tell others about, before you tell others about them.

Keith Hebner

#49. In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.

Victor Hugo

#50. I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive.

David Bedrick

#51. I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

Clare Balding

#52. Everything is against us ... But I have something they don't.
A love that will stop at nothing to defend the true heir to Egypt and Rome.

Trisha Wolfe

#53. In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

Frederick Lenz

#54. I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

Scott Ritter

#55. I like how you smile and how you laugh. I like how you love and defend your family and I like how you're trying to love mine. I love how you trust. But mostly, Emily, I love you.

Katie McGarry

#56. If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are ... What we love.

Guillermo Del Toro

#57. And I'm proud to be an American,
Where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men who died,
Who gave that right to me
And I'll proudly stand up next to him to defend her still today,
Cuz there aint no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA

Lee Greenwood

#58. To Love...
Is to fight......
To defend........
To Conquer.......

Michelle Geaney

#59. I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Jose Saramago

#60. I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Tanith Lee

#61. What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

Sergei Lukyanenko