Defends

Famous quotes containing the word defends:

“The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)