Quotes of: Indefensible Keyword

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Robert Baldwin Ross

The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.

The Decapaphiliac: Or Love in the Time of Cappuccinos

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Jello Biafra

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

Clive Owen

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

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Diane Abbott

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Veil wouldn’t make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

Veil

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.

Tibor Fischer

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

William Hague

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

Shade's Children

When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.

Vishwas Chavan

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Dalai Lama XIV

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mo...

Jonathan Sacks

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results...

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and be...

Janet Malcolm

Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon children proves impossible to support.

Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's...

Elizabeth Gilbert