defence

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

It__ so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That__ why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via __lunky as heck_ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy

Silence is the best defence for any argument.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?_ __t's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Show the world the man you think you are, and I will show the world the man you really are...