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To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. -- Michael Servetus
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. -- Rachel Cusk
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. -- B. B. King
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. -- Alfred Rosenberg
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. -- Alan Autry
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend. -- Kevin Eubanks
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
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. -- Morarji Desai
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves. -- Thomas Steinbeck
Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. -- John Bates Clark
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. -- Whittaker Chambers
I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna. -- Don Cheadle
To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman. -- Charles J. Shields
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? -- Jose Rizal
Women love to hear a man defending their wife. -- Geraldine Ferraro
I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it. -- Tammy Wynette
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. -- C. S. Lewis
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. -- Jean-Luc Godard
I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand. -- Matthew Sweet
Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America. -- William Allen White
Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living. -- Martin Niemoller

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