Guilt politics … I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, — Robin Morgan
By going on the defensive… libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should — Ilana Mercer
The captain looked defensive. “You regard our customs as primitive?”Every society — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent — David Emerald Womeldorff
I scowled defensively. “My conversations don’t usually include the subject of erections.” “ — Lisa Kleypas
My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive. — Mahatma Gandhi
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams