Defenseless Quotes
93 Defenseless quotes by 81 unique authors
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I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
— Dick Dale
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Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive…
— Karl A. Menninger
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The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless…
— Unknown Author
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Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and…
— Ramsey Clark
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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
— Queen Victoria
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Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know…
— Nora Roberts
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Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.
— Immortal Technique
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When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to…
— Sitting Bull
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Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.
— George Blake
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some…
— Kate Chopin
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When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really…
— Pope John Paul II
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You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself…
— Robert Kegan
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But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.
— Sylvia Plath
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Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and…
— Groucho Marx
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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can…
— Dante Alighieri
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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best…
— Alanis Morissette
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Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against…
— Lou Ferrigno
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With a kiss you can strip me defenseless.
— Belinda Carlisle
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We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have…
— Will Tuttle
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