Quotes About Defends

#1. Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

Joseph Goebbels

#2. Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.

Mark McKinnon

#3. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Anonymous

#4. This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Martin Luther

#5. What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Walter Scott

#6. The wall defends itself.

George R R Martin

#7. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

William Penn

#8. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#9. Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

Sun Tzu

#10. Against legitimacy is arrayed usurpation; against modest,
single-minded, righteous, and brave resistance to encroachment
is arrayed boastful, double-tongued, selfish, and treacherous
ambition to possess. God defend the right!"
"God often defends the powerful.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

Harold Lasswell

#12. Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#13. Fear not death, nor Satan's thrusts, God defends whom in Him trusts;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

Sun Tzu

#15. I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.

Tim O'Brien

#16. Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

Herbert Spencer

#17. That idea would be embarrassing because there is something excessive about it, it would take to much energy to defend (while the best possible progressive idea, so to speak, defends itself)...

Milan Kundera

#18. All that is shallow defends itself with much stronger rationalisations than that with a terrible depth. It is the rule.

Harshit Walia

#19. Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

Rafael Correa

#20. A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#21. Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

William Chillingworth

#22. Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

Thomas M. Disch

#24. Whoever defends himself will have himself for defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.

A.W. Tozer

#25. The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

Walter F. Mondale

#26. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#27. Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

Mari Serebrov

#28. Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

William Sloane Coffin

#29. I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#30. We breathe, Lily defends our relationship. My brows rise. Let's not kid ourselves. We struggle with our codependency on a daily basis.

Krista Ritchie

#31. You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Stefan Molyneux

#32. A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Pope Francis

#33. No science ever defends its first principles.

Aristotle.

#34. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Ann Dillard

#35. Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

George Crabbe

#36. The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

#37. To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Glenn Greenwald

#38. This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill

#39. A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#40. In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Justin Trudeau

#41. Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion. She listens to conscience and not to power, and in this way she defends the poor and the downtrodden.

Pope John Paul II

#42. Your brand is your personal lawyer ... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. A true friend, freely advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William Penn

Shaun Gold

#44. He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

Lao-Tzu

#45. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status

Laurence J. Peter

#46. The establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Fred Hoyle

#47. The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

Brigitte Bardot

#49. Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

Laozi

#50. Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Mason Cooley

#51. Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

Leonardo Boff

#52. I know not which I prefer the look of - those who attack us or that which defends us!

Michael Moorcock

#53. Love is magic in our veins. Love the hand of the punisher stays. Love heals what justice flays. Love defends and mercy reigns.

Evangeline Denmark

#54. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#55. A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

David Brin

#56. Clothed in the majesty of the law one may get away with murder, but lacking the law's prestige one defends himself at the risk of life and liberty.

J. Sidna Allen

#57. Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

Ayn Rand

#58. While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed ... Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

Max Blumenthal

#59. Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Robert South

#60. For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

Boris Spassky

#61. The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

Marshall McLuhan

#62. Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#63. No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Albert Camus

#64. 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

#65. God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Timothy Keller

#66. Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Nathalie Sarraute

#67. All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#68. How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

Richard Dawkins

#69. I've never seen her defend herself the way she defends other people. It's like she thinks she doesn't deserve it, or maybe she thinks she doesn't need it.

Cheryl Rainfield

#70. I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

Wendell Berry

#71. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Erma Bombeck

#72. I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Tom Brady

#73. The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Miguel De Unamuno

#74. This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

Winston S. Churchill

#75. We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [ ... ] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Maimonides

#76. I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

Michel Ocelot

#77. The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

Salman Rushdie

#78. You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Henry Rollins

#79. We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.

William The Silent

#80. He who defends everything, defends nothing.

Frederick The Great

#81. True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Gerrit Smith

#82. Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.

Carli Lloyd

#83. Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

Frederick Lenz

#84. You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

Swami Vivekananda

#85. Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration.

Stephen Alford