Defends Quotes

55 quotes by 49 authors

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. — Erma Bombeck
I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me. — Tom Brady
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens… — Amos Bronson Alcott
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. — Albert Camus
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. — Winston Churchill
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness. — Laozi
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service… — Frederic Bastiat
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. — Sun Tzu
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present… — Lionel Trilling
I know not which I prefer the look ofâ€”those who attack us or that which defends us! — Michael Moorcock
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control. — Boris Spassky
You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself — Swami Vivekananda
Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who… — Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. — Robert South
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more… — James Madison
Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you… — Helen Schucman
I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and… — Wendell Berry

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