Fence Quotes - Page 2
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.427, Delphi Classics
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 558
Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338
Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.
Public radio, August 31, 2004.
Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan