Top 100 Defend Quotes
#1. A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#2. The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
Charles I Of England
#3. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.
Lionel Trilling
#4. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Linda Evangelista
#5. The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.
Richard Carlson
#6. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan
Kieran Kramer
#7. Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#8. There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
James Taylor
#10. I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)
Woody Allen
#11. There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.
Andrew Keen
#12. I regret the times I've been mean to people ... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.
Don Imus
#14. It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.
Vallabhbhai Patel
#15. Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
Erma Bombeck
#16. I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.
Lars Von Trier
#17. With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.
Karl Popper
#18. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.
Anonymous
#19. Humans construct moral communities out of shared norms, institutions, and gods that, even in the twenty-first century, they fight, kill, and die to defend.
Jonathan Haidt
#20. Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.
John Brown
#21. I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#22. Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.
Doug Collins
#23. We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
Steven Pinker
#24. First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
Thomas Watson
#25. 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
#26. A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
Ellen Goodman
#29. Not even the strongest could defend against everything. Not forever.
Jodi Meadows
#30. Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
Orhan Pamuk
#31. It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
Oswald Chambers
#32. The meat's so tough that it got up off the plate and beat the shit out of the coffee, which was too weak to defend itself.
Harry Brandt
#33. The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
Tecumseh
#34. In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?
Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
#36. The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.
Gerald R. Ford
#37. We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.
Jalal Talabani
#38. It isn't our responsibility to defend our values and prioritize our message over our posture. We inherited a kingdom that cannot be shaken; we are an unthreatened people. God will stay on His throne without our rigorous defense.
Jen Hatmaker
#39. Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.
Francois Hollande
#40. The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
Stephen Harper
#41. My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia
#42. Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.
Tony Blair
#43. I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Naguib Mahfouz
#44. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
Paulo Coelho
#45. I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.
Gregory Peck
#46. Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.
Louis Sabin
#47. I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.
Li Na
#48. One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.
Ken Ham
#49. Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
B.B. King
#50. Sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself. When
Maya Angelou
#51. Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.
Jonathan Edwards
#52. Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#53. Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
Douglas MacArthur
#55. You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.
Jonathan Tucker
#56. Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke
Dorothy Koomson
#57. I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.
Rachel Weisz
#58. I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#59. Neil had never seen him play like this, so intense and fast and determined, but Andrew had promises to keep and a goal to defend. With
Nora Sakavic
#60. In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
Raul Castro
#61. Always stand up for what you believe in. Always defend yourself and your beliefs.
Carol Alt
#62. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
Wafa Sultan
#64. But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#65. A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries
Philip Bobbitt
#66. Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.
Roy Blunt
#67. A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.
Brian Crozier
#68. If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
Billy Bragg
#69. The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.
Marty Rubin
#70. The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#71. For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
Boris Spassky
#72. Skulduggery was right by Valkyrie's elbow, but remained quiet. She appreciated that. Any other man would have leaped in to defend her honour. Valkyrie was quite capable of doing that herself.
Derek Landy
#73. Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.
Mindy McGinnis
#74. Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.
Pope Innocent III
#75. Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at this time of the interview (while in their 20s and 30s) that they would never be safe with their fathers, and that they would have to defend themselves as long as their fathers lived.
Judith Lewis Herman
#76. The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
Mitch Albom
#77. That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Stalinist/Fascist standards.
Noam Chomsky
#79. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
George Grosz
#80. Adam has to work to defend himself against me and I'm exhausting him. I'm making him sick and I'm weakening his body and if he ever slips again. If he ever forgets. If he ever makes a mistake or loses focus or becomes too aware of the fact that he's using his gift to control what I might do -
Tahereh Mafi
#81. What we need to do is lead an international coalition which includes very significantly the Muslim nations in that region who are going to have to fight and defend their way of life.
Bernie Sanders
#82. It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.
Maya Angelou
#83. It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
Kevin Eubanks
#84. A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
#85. We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage
always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Sir Fulke Greville
#86. The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.
H. Rider Haggard
#87. I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.
John Wooden
#88. I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.
Sharron Angle
#89. Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.
Jack McCoy
#90. I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.
Alan Wilson
#91. Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.
Traci L. Slatton
#92. She slowly turned her head and looked at him. At his attractive, open face that could turn dark and reserved within seconds. The curve of his lips. The green eyes that looked into her a little too far and that she couldn't defend herself against.
Kai Meyer
#93. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure. A
Adriana Trigiani
#94. Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
Chris Kyle
#95. [Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
John Locke
#96. Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.
Dax Shepard
#97. The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.
Alan Cohen
#98. Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
Thomas Sowell
#99. A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her
Harper Lee
#100. A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
African Spir
