#fend

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years. ↗

— Evan Davis

#back #british #challenges #cherish #comes

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that. ↗

— Howard Dean

#frankly #hear #hypocrisy #i #like

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#every #every man #eyes #his #innocent

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#god #i #mankind #offended #quality

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#appearances #been #campuses #college #college campuses

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #believe #care #deeply #defendant

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#cannot #high #i #me #my soul

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#censor #code #literature #merely #moral

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#divine #fancy #ford #got #guess