Cannot Defend Quotes
25 quotes by 20 authors
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God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I…
— Mike Tyson
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The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception.…
— Pope Francis
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The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself.
— Pope Francis
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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that…
— Edward R. Murrow
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If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you…
— Robert Hughes
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Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they…
— John Henry Newman
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The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.
— G. Edward Griffin
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Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of…
— Sebastian Junger
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
— Edward R. Murrow
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The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden." He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. "You defy…
— Jim Butcher
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What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not…
— Marc Bekoff
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
— Veronica Roth
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Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never…
— John Henry Newman
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