Best Defenders Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Crossroads and the Dominion of Four

“Many want to be a warrior but they don't know what a lonely, tough, or pain staking journey it is. Warriors have to fight on behalf of the defenseless, defend what is right, as well as fight believers and non-believers alike. In reality, few like warriors because they confront their own, and their own think they're above being confronted. The warrior, you see, most often walks alone.”

War Fighting Lonely Fight Defenders Warriors

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”

“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”

Trying Problem Running Fear Focus Fields Football Asking Defense Hardest Defenders Football Field

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.”

Stills Ideas Practice Worst Chocolate Covered Shocked Handful Ants Defenders Abstinence Dubious

Author:Dick Cavett

“The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.”

Made Military Easier Army Locals Resistance Made It Contrast Reserves Threatened Scope Arcs Defenders Levers Tactical Stalingrad

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.”

States Christian Spiritual Justice Judging Civilization Worship Constitution Administration Officers Governors Defenders

Book:On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams

Source: On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams

“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”

Way War History Power Society Objects Balance Approach Direct Strategy Rounds Resistance Upset Defenders Indirect Compression Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.”

“It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.”

World States Interest Higher Claims Socialism Socialist Defenders National Interests Fatherland

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.”

World I Can Position Compliment Rivals Defenders

Author:Paolo Maldini

“The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.”

Knows Struggle Capitalism Innovation Opponents Defenders Innovators

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”

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Author:Lord Acton

“Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.”

Strong Longing Lust Towers Mischief Defenders Discord Neediness

Author:Diogenes

“The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.”

“In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.”

People Rocks Kings Defense Scripture Trust In God Idols Refuge Guardian Defenders Protector Fortresses False Gods

Book:Observations

Source: Observations

“When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong - they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.”

May Whole Mistake Leader Gone Crime Guilty Making Mistakes Stakes Identification Defenders Rejecting Not Guilty

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.”

America Turns Social Process Cutting Security Victory Gay Taxes Married Election Decades Terrorist Wealthy Division Social Security Defenders Mandates Tax Cuts Posing Epitome Deregulation

Author:Paul Krugman

“Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression, and alienation which prevails in Latin America. This has caused concern among the beneficiaries and defenders of capitalist society, who no longer can depend on what used to be - whether consciously or unconsciously - one of their mainstays.”

Source: Teología de la liberación

“Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.”

“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.”

Way Trying Seems Christian Heaven Poor Roles Break Violence One Thing Blood Cry Late Harmony Misery Calm Witness One Way Too Late Defenders Break Out Prophetic

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.”

“My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.”

Trying Fighting Sports Goal Week Clubs Bangs Defenders Strikers

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.”

Mind States Order Politics Difficult Enemy Economy Dangerous Bears Advantage Institutions Liberalism Introducing Doubtful Defenders Innovators Lukewarm

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.”

Company Four Football Commentators Defenders All Alone Chelsea

Author:Peter Drury

“He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.”

Asks Left Football Balls Legs Sleeves Commentators Defenders

Author:Clive Tyldesley

“Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders.”

Turns Position Football Commentators Defenders Giggs

Author:Martin Tyler

“The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world to enter upon a crusade against Atheism. The stage in which heresy meant little more than all exchange of one god for another has passed. It has become a case of acceptance or rejection of the idea of God, and the growth is with those who reject.”

World Littles Ideas Growth Religious Numbers Cases Growing Atheism Stage Acceptance Atheist Positive Atheism Rejection Rejects Heresy Defenders Crusades

Author:Chapman Cohen

“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.”

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Author:Walter F. Mondale

“I think my greatest strengths are my hands. I am also good at getting separation from the defender and finding ways to get open. I am also a good route runner.”

Thinking Way Hands Findings Separation Runners Routes Defenders

Author:Eric Thomas

“To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the right-back who comes forward and judges the situation. If he can do something he passes forward or runs with the ball, if not he gives it back to Makelele who builds the attack again. That is attacking football. In England attacking football is giving the ball to Makelele and having him hit it forward no matter what, even if everybody is marked.”

Ifs Giving Matter Happens Running Can Do Situation Football Judging Balls England No Matter What Attacking Defenders Can Do Something

Author:Jose Mourinho

“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.”

“The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.”

Justice Principles Honor Demand Champion Gentleman Knights Defenders Defenseless

Book:Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil; Would I could duly praise you, that each deed Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.”

Might Son Arms Honor Protect Destruction Praise Soldier Deeds Soil Traffic Toil Foe Spoil Defenders

Author:George Crabbe

“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Knows Doe Home Eye Earth Fighting Animal Existence Expression Capable Size His Eyes Courageous Suspects Conventions Suspicion Peasants Bourgeois Defenders Gallant Family Home

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“We need to put our faith and trust in the people on the frontlines -- and back it up with real resources. We need to make sure first defenders have the gear and support they need, and the benefits and protections they've earned. With new technology and ingenuity, by doing more to sustain our first defenders and calling on Americans to do more for their country, we can make our country stronger, safer, and more secure.”

People Needs Firsts Real Country Technology Support Calling Benefits Resources Stronger Protection Our Country Secure Gears Ingenuity New Technology Defenders Frontline

Author:John F. Kerry

“Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.”

Humans Country Reality Rights Democratic Human Rights Protection Granted Enjoyment Accused Defenders Unpatriotic Whistleblowers

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.”

“More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.”

People Has Beens Enough Criminals Guilty Representation Adequate Defenders Death Row

Author:John Grisham

“A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.”

Ifs Want Giving Reason Nations Special Survival Islam Defenders

Author:Michel Aflaq

“Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!”

Ifs Defenders

Author:Andy Gray

“Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end.”

Thinking World Ends Done Games Player Team Right Now Basketball Being The Best Injury Competing Defenders Best Players Playoffs Mvp

Author:Mark Jackson

“The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.”

Way Play Tough Opponents Defenders

Author:Ronaldinho

“Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.”

Humans Political Leader Rights Human Rights Minorities Iran Prisoner Persecution Disgrace Shameful Defenders Indictment Political Prisoners

Author:William Hague

“I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.”

Thinking Want Doe Has Beens Beautiful Moving Team Fans Come Up Defense Soccer Attacking Defenders Barcelona Goalies National Team Moving Up

Author:Xavi

“Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.”

“The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.”

Matter Christian Lasts Film Faces Christ Religious No Matter What Temptation Slap Defenders Slap In The Face

Author:Mickey Rooney

“[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.”

“A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.”

Causes Cutting Discussion Resolution Zeal Cautious Defenders Zealous

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

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