
“The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.”
Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102
The Drowned and the Saved (1986)
“The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.”
Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
Windfall : The End of the Affair (1992).
Context: The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer." Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed — but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.
Abbey's Road (1979)
“For us, physicians, life is the aim of our work and each death is a tragedy.”
Tragedy and Triumph of Reason (1985)
Context: The human mind finds it difficult to comprehend the figure of 2,000 million victims. As they say, one death is death, but a million deaths are statistics. For us, physicians, life is the aim of our work and each death is a tragedy. As people constantly involved in the care of patients, we felt the urge to warn governments and peoples that the critical point has been passed: medicine will be unable to render even minimal assistance to the victims of a nuclear conflict — the wounded, the burned, the sick — including the population of the country which unleashes nuclear war.
“To me death is better than the defensive.”
Quoted in W. Lyon Blease, "Suvorof," 1926.
“Books and beer are the best and worst defense.”
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“For no human defense avails against Heaven.”
Canzone 270, st. 6
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
Peter Agre's speech at the Nobel Banquet http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2003/agre-speech-e.html, December 10, 2003