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Letter "D" » defenseless
«Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right»
«What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
creatures, cry, defenseless, poor
«I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.»
Author: Kate Chopin
(Author, Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
defenseless, editors, flattery, guise, newspaper, professional, readers, secrets, shocked, surprised
«It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
absent, absents, as it is, cowardly, defenseless, gossip, gossiping, minded, narrow-minded, narrow, narrow mind, persons, strike, wicked
«I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government.»
«We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
An Age, complex, defenseless, entered, industrialize, industrialized, luxury, permitting
«The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
bending, defenseless, erect, erecting, erects, fallen, inferior, lifting, providence, rises, shield, The Blind
«Defenseless under the night, Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light, Flash out wherever the Just, Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them, Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same, Negation and despair»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
beleaguer, Beleaguered, defenseless, dot, dots, dotted, Eros, flash, ironic, messages, stupor
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