#defend

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#criminal #criminal justice #criminal justice system #defender #experimentation

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did. ↗

— Jan Hus

#defended #did #god #i #neither

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#assume #commands #conclusion #defend #dictates

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold. ↗

— Tiffeny Milbrett

#ask #defenders #every #forwards #keepers

I did not have a reputation to defend. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#did #i #reputation

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#claims #defend #duty #esteem #gratitude

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#claim #defenders #deny #earth #individual

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#cowardice #defend #fake-friends #friends #friendship

...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ↗

— Diane Abbott

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