Defence Quotes - Page 13

• Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

  Panda Bear

  Would Be, Band, Helping

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• I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

  Panda Bear

  Thinking, People, Knows

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• In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people who run them are making millions. There should be no relationship between ex-politicians and them, like John Reid and Malcolm Rifkind, who are now associated with contracting companies having been ministers of defence. That's unacceptable.

  Ken Loach

  Running, War, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Alternatives, Corruption, Cases

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

  Henry Rollins

  Meals, Levels, Cry

  "One last thing ... Henry Rollins". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Privilege, Expected, Secretary

  "Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth on Afghanistan and the spirit of our armed forces". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 22, 2009.

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• Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Illumination, Inward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

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• It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.

  Bob Hope

  Boys, Soldier, Sailor

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• Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Ignorance, Mean

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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• The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Grateful, Europe, United States

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• In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

  David Fontana

  Art, Self, Skills

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• Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.

  Patricia Duncker

  Children, Passion, Caring

  Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”

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• [I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Believe, Thrones, Maintenance

  "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 147), 1971.

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• I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Military, War

  "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.

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• Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

  Walter Raleigh

  Sea, England, Shipping

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• Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Sea, Long, Phrases

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• Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Atheism, Facts

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.452, OUP Oxford

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• For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

  John Milton

  Strong, Errors, Atheism

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• Perverseness is your whole defence.

  Jonathan Swift

  Perverseness, Whole

  Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1871). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift”, p.235

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• If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Russia, Years, People

  "Kremlin resists charms of Star Wars" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2001.

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• The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

  H. H. Asquith

  Army, Return

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• Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war. Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile defence systems.

  Michael Ruppert

  Stars, War, Fighting

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• The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

  Enoch Powell

  Pride, Next Week, Two

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• [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Edward Gibbon (1855). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.155

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• Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Cutting, Artist

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