#fend

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#fear #inspires #less #love #offending

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#counter #defend #differing #expression #freedom

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#defend #fabulous #go #good #hilt

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here. ↗

— Chris Matthews

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I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return. ↗

— Bob Taft

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