It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but…

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger

“The best of men cannot defend their fate: the good die early, the bad die late.”

— Daniel Defoe

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

— Genghis Khan

When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

— Alan Dershowitz

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as…

— Herman Kahn

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..

— Francis Picabia

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

— Warren Farrell

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers…

— Don King

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've…

— Warren Farrell

Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all…

— Malcolm Forbes

I would never refuse to work with anybody.

— Coleen Nolan

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth