Quotes of Defence - somelinesforyou

“ Sadness is also a kind of defence. ”

- Ivo Andric

“ People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. ”

- Emo Philips

“ No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ”

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

“ We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There is always more spirit in attack than in defence. ”

- Titus Livius

“ Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed. ”

- Unknown

“ DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves. ”

- Niccolo Macbiavelli

“ The very people who bore the brunt of Croatia's defence either by their own will or owing to circumstances are not on any account entitled to put into question the functioning of Croatia as a law-abiding state or encourage noncompliance with the Constitution and the law. ”

- Stjepan Mesic

“ The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ”

- Thomas Hood

“ I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. … I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United States. It was estimated that in 2001, 903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless. ”

- Pete Domenici
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