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“And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After...”
“I see how you look at me, spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. Its because he cant accept ...”
“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating pun...”
“So? I know damn well that I didnt poison her.Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder”
“Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fe...”
“This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain.”
“The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In ...”
“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
“Pyotr was the arcane hero, complete with buff body that you secretly whacked off to as a boy. And suddenly he turned and stared straight at him, some carnal fire burning in his eyes now. Pyotr walk...”
“But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.”
“Fear never leaves you. It just adapts to you. And thats the meaning of strengthening a warrior spirit from within, as you cant fight all your battles with the same weapons.”
“In the era of globalization, everything is interconnected. A problem in one part of the world will definitely impact on other parts of the globe. Such phenomenon is also valid for defense and secur...”
“Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.”
“The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth”
“The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when truth is ridiculed. When God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth.”
“The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything toget...”
“If you make peace without defense power,then you should be really ready to be ruled.”
“Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?”
“I see how you look at me,” spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. It’s because he can’t acce...”
“My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An o...”
