Defences Quotes
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Eighteen is a good time for suffering.One has all the necessary strength, and no defences.
— 1967 The Pyramid.
Since wars begin in theminds of men, it isintheminds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
— 1945 Signed16 Nov.The Unesco Constitution came into force 4 Nov1946.
Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.
stanley baldwin— Letter to the Peace Society (31 October 1935), during the general election.
I've never ducked anyone. Bernard Hopkins has beaten people that nobody else wanted to fight — Winky Wright, Antonio Tarver. I knocked out Felix Trinidad easily, Oscar de la Hoya with a body shot, I had world title 20 defences.
bernard hopkins— As quoted in "Hopkins turns up heat on Calzaghe"at BBC News (14 November 2007)
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?
margaret atwood— "The circle game"
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers. ... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.
gilbert keith chesterton— pp. 15-17 (The Great Minimum)
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.
gilbert keith chesterton— Chapter XIII "Celts and Celtophiles"
