Defense Quotes - Page 40

• Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Keys, World, Violence

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• At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.

  David J. Lieberman

  Self Esteem, Flare Up, Roots

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.20, David Lieberman

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• Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Opportunity, Air

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• The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

  Rory Miller

  Gun, People, Evil

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• O Eternal Father, we commend to Thy protection and care the members of the Marine Corps. Guide and direct them in the defense of our country and in the maintenance of justice among nations. Protect them in the hour of danger. Grant that wherever they serve they may be loyal to their high traditions and that at all times they may put their trust in Thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

  Henry Knox Sherrill

  Country, Jesus, Father

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• My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.

  David Berg

  Wall, Thinking, Doors

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• The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

  Bill McKibben

  Jobs, Rain, Book

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• ... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the apostles and imparted to her sons. For the Lord of all gave to His apostles the power of the Gospel, through whom also we have known the truth, that is, the doctrine of the Son of God: to whom also did the Lord declare: 'He who hears you, hears Me; and he who despises you, despises Me, and Him who sent Me' (Lk. 10:16).

  Pope Clement I

  Christian, Son, Giving

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• No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Strong, Military

  "Shields and Gerson on GOP’s Patriot Act rift, Islamic State’s victories". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2015.

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• When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

  Emily Yoffe

  Thinking, Blood, Law

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.

  Lindsey Graham

  Party, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Military, Believe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.

  Julien Temple

  Jobs, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  Apology, Negativity, Littles

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• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Coward, Slander

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

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• Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

  Mike Royko

  Moonbeams, Fund

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• But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

  Gangaji

  Reflection, Self, Emptiness

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• Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

  Paul Fussell

  Boys, Youth, Kitten

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• Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Enemy, Society

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• Jesus' power is the power of human wholeness that ultimately opens, invites and enables human beings to step beyond defense lines where incomplete humanity always hides in order to experience full humanity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Order, Humanity

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• Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Past, Fantasy

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• Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Theodore Stevens

  Men, Thinking, Gender Gap

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• A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Strong, Peace, War

  Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

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• Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning has made reference to the cause of liberty in his remarks. To be effective in such teaching, we must begin by inspiring in each heart the faith that the Constitution of the United States was written by inspired men whom God raised up for that very purpose.

  Harold B. Lee

  Loyalty, Morning, Teaching

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