Protection Quotes - Page 31

• From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Our World, Apples

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”, p.60

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• Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. ...Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Want, Constitution

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• Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Religious, Waiting, Religion

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• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  Dan Farmer

  Writing, Connections, Break

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• Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

  Judd Gregg

  Safety, Community, Banking

  "Financial Regulatory Reform: Washington 'Going Stupid' Again?". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.

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• But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Home, People

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• Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Real, Engineering

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• My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Children, Dad, Years

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

  Bill Keller

  Country, Religious, Rights

  "Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith" by Bill Keller, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Sex, Thinking, Use

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• In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

  Bob Ney

  People, Arms, Criminals

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• Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

  Jack Kingston

  Children, Men, Together

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• I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

  Peter MacKay

  Home, Mean, Law

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• In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

  Sandra Oh

  Parent, Asian, Goes On

  Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV, www.today.com. March 22, 2005.

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  College, Rights, Government

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• What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

  Samantha Power

  Government, Want, Needed

  "Dying in Darfur" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

  Trevor Phillips

  Running, Children, Law

  "'Anti-gay' book puts Gove at centre of faith school teaching row" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Country, Opening Up, Rights

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• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, War, Recovery

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• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, Rights, Intellectual

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• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  Manmohan Singh

  Cutting, Ideas, World

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• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  Nassau William Senior

  Errors, Government, Would Be

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• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, Air, Should Have

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

  Fred Upton

  Country, Jobs, Environmental

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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