Defend Quote by Edmund Burke

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because…

— Alan Watts

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their…

— Sitting Bull

Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend.

— The Moody Blues

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if…

— Al Lewis

Defend for all the right reasons than the wrongs

— Anonymous

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

— Anonymous

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

— Laozi

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

— Wilfred Bion

“Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations—consciously or not—that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.”

— Howard Zinn

“When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy”

— Gurcharan Das