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This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after "Defender of the Faith," again after "Goodbye Columbus," and understandably it went way up to about 107 after "Portnoy's Complaint." Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.
philip roth— "The Unbounded Spirit of Philip Roth", interview with Mervyn Rothstein, The New York Times (1985-08-01), Late City Final Edition, section C, page 13, column 1On criticism of his writing
Whoever attacks a custom or a creed, will be confronted with a list of the names of the dead who upheld the custom, or believed the creed. He is asked in a very triumphant and sneering way, if he knows more than all the great and honored of the past. Every Defender of a creed has graven upon his memory the names of all "great" men whose actions or words can be tortured into evidence for his doctrine
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Great Infidels (1881).
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one Defender is asking to be blindsided.
Criss Jami— Killosophy
If a 19th century capitalist Machiavelli had wished to cripple the socialist intelligentsia of the 20th century, he could have invented no more cogent weapon than the labour theory of value. Yet this theory was the invention, not of a Defender of capitalism, but of its greatest critic: Karl Marx.
— Chapter 13, Nothing To Lose But Their Minds, p. 270–271 (See also: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter VI, p. 58)
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason, rebels against tyranny, has a better title to "Defender of the faith" than George the Third.
thomas paine— The Crisis No. III
I was disappointed it wasn't reported that I said Rio Ferdinand was the best Defender in the world.
rio ferdinand— Sven Goran Eriksson [[9]]
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a Defender of privilege.
— As quoted in "Sayings of the Week" in The Observer [London] (17 December 1943)
O worship the King, all glorious above; O gratefully sing his power and his love: Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.
Sir Robert Grant— 1833 'O worship the King, all glorious above', collected in Sacred Poems (1839).
