Defensively Quotes
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
sydney j. harris— On Jess Stearn’s The Sixth Man, Saturday Review (April 22, 1961)
"Floyd Mayweather is one of the few great fighters left who has it both offensively and defensively."
mayweather, floyd, jr.— Member of International Boxing Research Organization, Monte D. Cox [8]
Kant ... stated defensively that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge. . . to make room for faith," but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not "denied knowledge" but separated knowledge from thinking.
hannah arendt— p. 14 (The Life of the Mind (1971/1978))
Aware that in Roe it essentially created something out of nothing and that there are many in this country who hold that decision to be basically illegitimate, the Court responds defensively.... I do not share the warped point of view of the majority, nor can I follow the tortuous path the majority treads in proceeding to strike down the statute before us. I dissent.
— Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court, dissenting in Thornburgh v. American College of Obst. & Gyn., 476 U.S. 747 (1986).
