Quotes about Defends

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. Votes: 3

He who defends everything defends nothing. Votes: 2

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. Votes: 2

Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life. Votes: 2

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. Votes: 2

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. Votes: 2

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Votes: 2

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Votes: 2

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. Votes: 2

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me. Votes: 2

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. Votes: 2

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control. Votes: 2

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Votes: 2

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights. Votes: 2

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks. Votes: 2

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. Votes: 2

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 him. He will have no disciples. Votes: 2

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. Votes: 2

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals. Votes: 2

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate. Votes: 2

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights. Votes: 2

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too. Votes: 2

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old. Votes: 2

Exercise thy lasting youth defends. Votes: 0

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it. Votes: 0

No science ever defends its first principles. Votes: 0

Man only honors what he conquers or defends. Votes: 0

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all. Votes: 0

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days. Votes: 0

... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility. Votes: 0

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself Votes: 0

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. Votes: 0

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. Votes: 0

Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends. Votes: 0

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. Votes: 0

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. Votes: 0

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you. Votes: 0

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality. Votes: 0

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. Votes: 0

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we. Votes: 0

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political. Votes: 0

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. Votes: 0

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love. Votes: 0

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. Votes: 0

I know not which I prefer the look of"”those who attack us or that which defends us! Votes: 0

A True friend is one who sees a fault, gives you advice and who defends you in your absence. Votes: 0

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything. Votes: 0

Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness. Votes: 0

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf. Votes: 0

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation. Votes: 0

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind. Votes: 0

The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths. Votes: 0

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. Votes: 0

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems. Votes: 0

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities. Votes: 0

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 of all. Votes: 0

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 bourgeoisie itself. Votes: 0

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. Votes: 0

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression. Votes: 0

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. Votes: 0

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. Votes: 0

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter. Votes: 0

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it. Votes: 0

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour. Votes: 0

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly. Votes: 0

I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us. Votes: 0

I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will. Votes: 0