Defenseless Quotes - Page 2

• It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.

  Raymond Leo Burke

  Inspirational, Pro Life, Desire

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• You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Children, Heart

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

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• Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dope, Addiction, Smoking

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• The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Economic Inequality, Greed

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• At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

  Grover Cleveland

  Wisdom, Evil, Hoarding

  United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland), Grover Cleveland (1895*). “Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895”

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• These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

  Alanis Morissette

  Friendship, Illusion, Invisible

  Song: Precious Illusions, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

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• We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

  Will Tuttle

  Children, Apology, Animal

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.411, Lantern Books

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• The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

  Michel Foucault

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.59, Vintage

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• With a kiss you can strip me defenseless.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Kissing, Endearment

  Song: I Get Weak, Album: Heaven on Earth, 1987

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• When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Decision, Causes, Serious

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• But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, White, Skins

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, White

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• In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

  Pope Francis

  Way, Politics, Environment

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I won’t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Guy, Swear

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• I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to use a gun as a tool, and I view myself as a victim of the legislators at the time who left me defenseless.

  Suzanna Hupp

  Gun, Views, Tools

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• To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Girl, Boys, Practice

  Alain Robbe-Grillet (2015). “La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Animal, People, Abuse

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• but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Children, Ignorance, Animal

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.83, Vintage

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• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.

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• This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.

  Che Guevara

  Horse, Wall, Powerful

  Ernesto Che Guevara (2013). “The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America”, p.58, Ocean Press

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• The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sorry, Hot, World

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• The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

  Melina Marchetta

  Awkward, Red, Faces

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

  Michael Scott

  War, Men, Honor

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• No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.

  John T. Flynn

  War, Black, Mind

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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