Defense Against Quotes
84 quotes by 73 authors
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
— Joseph Addison
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
— Mel Brooks
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
— Winston Churchill
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Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external…
— William Godwin
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching…
— Cesare Pavese
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their…
— Cesare Pavese
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Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to…
— Goldie Hawn
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There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
— Joseph Addison
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
— Dan Marino
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.
— Frank Buchman
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Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain.…
— Marianne Williamson
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.
— Jim Harrison
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
— Dean Koontz
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Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
— James Madison
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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
— Elyn Saks
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