Defence Mechanism Quotes

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Defence for me is so important because I do not want anyone to trespass and invade my property because that goal is my property.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.