Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“This defence can only be achieved by killing or disabling the enemy.” — W.E. Fairbairn Copy Share Image
Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
I want to play football, and I want to help the team. It doesn't matter if I play midfield, if I play… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When I was young I was a striker, scoring lots of goals, then I moved to midfield, then defence. I like to… — Reece James Copy Share Image
White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. — Mathias Rust Copy Share Image
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us… — Abraham Clark Copy Share Image
Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible;… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“For while a weapons capability is clearly required in our unstable and aggressive world, the scale of defence spending in countries both… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
So I don't think that the default mode of aggressive interviewing is useful, because politicians just build a defence against it. In… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is something different between defence deal and deal in defence. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal. — Shay Given Copy Share Image
The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
