indefensible quotes

Charity isthepowerofdefending that whichwe know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  Heretics, ch.12.

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

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Politics and the English Language', collected in Shooting an Elephant (1950).