When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.
How to defend yourself against a banana
I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.
Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.
One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.
These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood.
I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.
The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.
When the dominant media invites the torturers on their programs to defend the nature of torture and then label that as "just another position," these media apparatuses have really sunken into hell. They've become something really vile and despicable. And yet they do it with a smile.
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him. " The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.
I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model. ' 'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.