Quotation Explorer - 'Protection'

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. - Ambrose Bierce
Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them - rassool jibraeel snyman
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection. - Henry Ward Beecher
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.-Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, page 299 - J.K. Rowling
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. - George Bernard Shaw
But just as quantity wins respect and honour for a church, it is quality that provides a church with safety and protection. - Sunday Adelaja
Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection, too. - David J. Schwartz
I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion. - Steven Magee
Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies. - Eduardo Galeano
Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. - Mark Twain
Friendship with the world removes God’s protection and His covering from us. - Sunday Adelaja
Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all. - C.W. Gortner
Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt. - Lori Goodwin
The fundamental premise that all are equal under and before the law and all are entitled to the equal protection and the equal benefit of the law and when that is put in place, the law enforcement becomes manageable because just laws foster compliance, do not require coercion. - George Stamatis
We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control. - Russell Eric Dobda
Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark. - Elder David A. Bednar
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. - John Stuart Mill
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire. - Lysander Spooner
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. - Mahatma Gandhi
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. - Charles de Montesquieu
It is only the man that has done his best that qualifies to ask for God’s protection and blessings. This message must return to our pulpit. - Sunday Adelaja
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life."[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005] - Nelson Mandela
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vampires don't tan. Without UV protection, we get sunburned, heal, and just repeat the process over and over. Spade, First Drop of Crimson by - Jeaniene Frost
Wilderness holds an original presence giving expression to that which we lack, the losses we long to recover, the absences we seek to fill. Wilderness revives the memory of unity. Through its protection we can find faith in our humanity. - Terry Tempest Williams
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success - M. James Airey
This [ban bossy] campaign is indicative of one of the main problems with feminism today -- the idea that women are victims in need of more and more special protection. - Karin Agness
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. - Sir Francis Bacon
To live in denial of caring deeply, to hold oneself back from speaking from the heart as a means of self protection, to speak in whispers, to describe what you have together as "this." Oh the sweet sadness of forbidden love. - Cheryld
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. - Thomas Jefferson
Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. - Slavoj Žižek
Most USA citizens never realize that the systems of public protection are essentially useless until they try to use them. At that point they learn the hard way that government agencies like OSHA, FCC, FDA, police internal affairs, disability, and the like do not work for them. - Steven Magee
A journey of 1000 miles starts with asking God for guidance & protection... 'a single step' is secondary! - Mwirigi LG
When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from it by layers and layers of protection - the soles of your shoes, sandals, or slippers, sheets of asphalt, concrete, linoleum tiling. - Vicente García Groyon
For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone? - Anne Graham
The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty. - Paul Watson
Culture, like science, is no protection against demons. - G.K. Chesterton
It's not the books by Stephen King that I read,I need protection from the things in my head . . . - Jimmy Buffett
It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,I need protection from the things in my head . . . - Jimmy Buffett
In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws. - Charles de Montesquieu
I could sum up my younger life in one word.-Misunderstanding. Most of my school life was spend in protection mode. Which made any 'benefit' I could get from socializing, useless. - TinaJ. Richardson
Thank you Lord.Thank you Lord for the gift of life.Thank you Lord for divine protection. Thank you Lord for daily guidance. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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