Defense Mechanism Quotes

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I made it to protect the motherland.

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Ideology…is an instrument of power; a defense mechanism against information; a pretext for eluding moral constraints in doing or approving evil with a clean conscience; and finally, a way of banning the criterion of experience, that is, of completely eliminating or indefinitely postponing the pragmatic criteria of success and failure.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

The king of branding, Mr. Trump performs best when he is on the defense.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

An attack is always a smear when it is directed against you.

I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

Optimism is my best defense.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

Iron Dome is a proven defense system that will provide increased protection for our troops in the field.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.