After the death of Origen his followers disturbed the Church very much by maintaining and propagating his errors... Finally, in the twelfth canon of the second council of Constantinople, both Origen and all those who would persist in defending his doctrine were condemned. p. 49

César Chávez (pronounced "CHA-vez") died long after the height of the farmworker cause, like the entire Chicano movement, had been forced to spend much energy defending its small gains of the 1960s.

The literary world must take a stand [to stop Bloomsbury publishing the book]. This is not about cancel culture. This is about defending literature from fascism. This is about standing up against religious divide, hate speech, islamophobia and false history.

How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

There was no intention of differentiating genres or fields. I was always involved in a variety of projects—depending on timing and circumstance. I’d like to continue challenging myself in various ways, such as movies, dramas and plays.

In all my years of defending inner-city clients I have never introduced music before as a mitigating circumstance in a murder case. But I do believe it applies in this case. Without the music riling him up, I do not think that this incident would have occurred.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Someone is saying we are contemplating sending aid to help the Pakistani refugees. I hope to hell we’re not.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

What you spend your energy on, that’s the day.

There is nothing difficult about becoming a sage, and nothing false about transcending the world of appearances.

In the never-ending battle you have all officially joined as of today, the difference is in how truly you believe, in how vociferously you promote, in how tightly you hold onto the truth that is self-evident: that of course we are all created equally yet differently, and of course we are all in this together.