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

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
George Konrad

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.
Michael Aston

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

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
Oriana Fallaci

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.
Rick Boucher

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
Christie Hefner

I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.
Ruth Ellis

I did not have a reputation to defend.
Roman Polanski

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

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

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Pierre Corneille

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Alfred M. Gray

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.
Anne Parillaud

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Elia Kazan

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.
Don Nickles

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

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.
Floyd Abrams

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
Dennis C. Blair