Defence Quote by Susan Sontag

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

— John Boyne

In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton…

— David Fontana

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat…

— Charles Dickens

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

— Rickson Gracie

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of…

— Benazir Bhutto

“one can even kill a cow in self defence…”

— Vineet Asopa

[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths,…

— Steven Pinker