Defend Quotes
1167 Defend quotes by 868 unique authors
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There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he…
— Vincent de Paul
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War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief…
— Mark McKinnon
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I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.
— Ethan Zuckerman
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My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!
— Stonewall Jackson
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I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.
— Sarah Silverman
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
— Umberto Eco
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My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had…
— Saul Rubinek
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The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement.…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
— Isabel Allende
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The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the…
— Glenn Greenwald
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If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit…
— John Ridley
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In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked…
— Thomas Steinbeck
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The Baltimore boys only defend themselves when playing against teams that treat us mean, especially that bunch from Cincinnati.
— Joe Kelley
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When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
— Peter T. King
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According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.
— Bill Cosby
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed…
— Hank Johnson
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No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social…
— Rashid al-Ghannushi
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