Guardians Quotes
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
jean cocteau— Also quoted in Diary of an Unknown (1991) as translated by Jesse Browne.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
václav havel— Ch. 5 (Disturbing the Peace (1986))
Where are those proud people who will not allow the tomb of Ali to be a target for the bullets of this armed infidel called America? Where are the guardians of (Imam) Hosein's honor, who will prevent the Najaf Seminary and the Iraqi Shiites from becoming targets for the horrible attacks of the infidel bullets? Now the infidels are attacking the most holy cities and countries of Islam.
abdollah javadi-amoli— Excerpts from a Friday Sermon, Qom, Iran August 2004
What I demand you is almost impossible, for one has to defeat our history. And nevertheless, if one does not defeat it, one has to know a rule that imposes itself: nationalism, this is war! War is not solely past, it can be our future, and these are you, ladies and gentlemen deputies, who are the guardians of our peace, our security and our future.
françois mitterrand— Lecture held at European Parliament (17 January 1995)
Unlearned men of books assume the care,As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Edward Young— Satire II, l. 83.
Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.
Robert Browning— Women and Roses.
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.
Alexander Hamilton— No. 71
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. ... You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
Michael Moore— On the role of outraged librarians protesting when publisher HarperCollins insisted he rewrite Stupid White Men to be less critical of President Bush. "Muzzling Moore" Salon (7 January 2002)
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.
thomas szasz— p. 160 (The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997))
Great constitutional provisions must be administered with caution. Some play must be allowed for the joints of the machine, and it must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company v. May, 194 U.S. 270 (1904).
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-1728), Satire II, line 83.
Aërial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
— Hesiod, Works and Days, line 164.
Up wi' the flowers o' Scotland, The emblems o' the free, Their guardians for a thousand years, Their guardians still we'll be. A foe had better brave the de'il Within his reeky cell, Than our thistle's purple bonnet, Or bonny heather bell.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, The Flowers of Scotland; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787.
Don't choose Jews, Christians, or disbelievers as guardians.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 5:57
Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord and follow not besides Him any guardians; little do you mind!
— 3 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may determine the destiny of our nation (Yeah) in the ideological struggle against communism .
— Martin Luther King, Jr., in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: Symbol of the movement, January 1957 ..., p.211
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
learned hand— The Bill of Rights (1958), p. 73.
They're not guardians.
— Who: Allomere
— Source: Legend Of The Guardians The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Go Tell the guardians
— Who: Grimble
— Note:Killed by Nyra.
I feel awe of the gods, I love, I revere, I venerate them, and in short have precisely the same feelings towards them as one would have towards kind masters or teachers or fathers or guardians or any beings of that sort.
— "To the Cynic Heracleios" in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1913) edited by W. Heinemann, Vol. II, p. 93
