Protection Quotes - Page 27

• There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

  Edmund Burke

  Abuse, Reverence, Draws

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

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• A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strong, Fall, Frustration

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

  Thomas Merton

  Night, Hands, Action

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Lonely, Sex, Dark

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Summer, Gun, Black

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• By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Caring, Rights

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• If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.

  Brian Billick

  Winning, Nfl, Pockets

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• And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loyalty, Military, Reality

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• In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

  Glenn Beck

  Self, Views, Community

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Law, Body

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.4, Indiana University Press

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• I will appoint men and women to the Federal judiciary who share my view of unborn children as constitutionally protected and who will unhesitatingly vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. If nominated by my party, I will select my running mate from among a list of men and women fully committed to protection of the unborn.

  Gary Bauer

  Running, Children, Party

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• It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Soul, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

  Nicholas Ray

  Imagination, Source

  Nicholas Ray (1993). “I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies”, p.28, Univ of California Press

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• Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Financial, Failing, Mutual Fund

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• Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

  John D. Voelker

  Hate, Yarn, Greed

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• The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Giving, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why - with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Issues, People

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• Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off.

  David Letterman

  Wife, Presidential, Secret

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• Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Moral, Destroying

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

  Chiune Sugihara

  Teenager, Home, Men

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• To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

  Ellis Peters

  Heaven, Have Faith, Divine

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• When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

  Christine Pelosi

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  "Democrats Push Voter Protection While GOP Shout Voter Fraud in a Crowded Polling Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.

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• The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Justice, Tyranny, Banner

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• And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.

  James Madison

  Character, Government, People

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• Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Scary, Assassins, Bullets

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