#fend

[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational. ↗

— R. C. Sproul

#god #logic #the-law-of-noncontradiction #faith

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ↗

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#defend #disapprove #i #right #say

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ceases #exist #expression #freedom of expression #offend

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#determined #little #nobody #offend #print

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#animal rights #defend #just #left #matter

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#heart #himself #his #man #much

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#approaching #bank #convince #evil #go