#offense

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#defense #enemy #kill #means #more

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

#literary #offense #production #social

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#committed #constitution #had #halls #i

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense. ↗

— Max Frisch

#certain #certain level #citizen #every #guilty

We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it. ↗

— Brian Griese

#lot #mean #much #offense #potential

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague. ↗

— Tony Kornheiser

#bubonic #offense #plague #treat

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#beings #death #excuse #fact #human

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#fault #find #must #offense #possible

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. ↗

— Robert Burton

#bitter #friends #offenses #old #old friends

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves