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When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.
Liam O'Flaherty— 'The Mermaid'.
Freedom is not an ideal; it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
— 1960 Putting FirstThings First.
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).
john calvin— Page 51 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Our main plank is Veer Savarkar’s message which he preached at the Calcutta session: ‘Equal rights for all citizens and protection of the culture and religion of every minority’.
nirmal chandra chatterjee— ibid., p. 74
The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law.
peter kropotkin— IV (Law and Authority (1886))
Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women’s history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not as filiopietistic commemoration. The purpose of history is to promote not group self-esteem, but understanding of the world and the past, dispassionate analysis, judgment, and perspective, respect for divergent cultures and traditions, and unflinching protection for those unifying ideas of tolerance, democracy, and human rights that make free historical inquiry possible.
— The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: W W Norton, 1998) p. 104
In practice, once anarcho-capitalist institutions were well established, protection agencies would anticipate such difficulties and arrange contracts in advance, before specific conflicts occurred, specifying the arbitrator who would settle them.
david friedman— David Friedman, Police, Courts and Laws - On the Market
A tax-funded protection agency is a contradiction in terms and will lead to ever more taxes and less protection.
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.
talal abu-ghazaleh— November 28, 1999 at the National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
warren farrell— p. xxii. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."
learned hand— "The Preservation of Personality" commencement address at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (2 June 1927); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 32.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.
james madison— Federalist No. 10
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.
james madison— Federalist No. 10
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration and [...] when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.
george mason— Article 3 (Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776))
A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?
Arthur Schopenhauer— “On Noise”
Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
walter scott— Ch. 29, Ivanhoe explains to Rebecca the virtues of chivalry.
The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.
howard zinn— Describing the people who participated in the Freedom Rides to end segregation in Albany, Georgia. in You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train (1994) Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia
Our Draw Mohammed contest is not a frivolous exercise of hip, ironic, hoolarious sacrilege toward a minority religion in the United States (though even that deserves all the protection that the most serioso political commentary commands). It's a defense of what is at the core of a society that is painfully incompetent at delivering on its promise of freedom, tolerance, and equal rights.
— Nick Gillespie (May 18, 2010). "Why We're Having an Everybody Draw Mohammed Contest on Thursday May 20". Reason magazine (reason.com).
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
— Al Gore, in a statement often misquoted as "I invented the Internet." CNN Late Edition (9 March 1999)
A will is often executed suddenly in a last sickness, and sometimes in the article of death . . . consequently the time of the execution is the critical moment which requires guard and protection.
— Lord Camden, Doe d. Hindson v. Hersey, 4 Burn's Ecc. L. 27 ; 1 Jarman on Wills, 70.
Could I forget that the event [Mehmet Ali A?ca’s assassination attempt] in Saint Peter's Square took place on the day and at the hour when the first appearance of the Mother of Christ to the poor little peasants has been remembered for over sixty years at Fatima in Portugal? For, in everything that happened to me on that very day, I felt that extraordinary motherly protection and care, which turned out to be stronger than the deadly bullet.
— Source: Pope John Paul II (2005). Memory and identity: conversations at the dawn of a millennium. Rizzoli.
" we must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal terrors but to careful administration."
— Book III, 3.46-[4]
God has required us (the Ahlul Bayt) to be obeyed for the sake of protection of the Ummah (community) and Im?mat (leadership); and our leadership is obligatory to protect against disunity.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.29, p.233
The sanctity of life is often also taken to refer to the life of "the unborn child." Yet the use of this expression is as if we referred to the reader as "an adult fetus." To say that a fertilized ovum or an embryo is a human being and therefore entitled to the full protection of the law is a prejudicial abuse of language. Nor do those who take this position ever maintain it consistently, for they never embrace the logical corollary which is that all abortive operations are murders and should be so treated in law.
— Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins, The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control, 1970.
[T]he child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.
— United Nations, DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 1386 (XIV) of 10 December 1959.
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.
Carre Otis— Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just (April 27, 2012)
I hear this term 'deep state' all the time. There's no deep state, but there is a deep culture and a commitment to the rule of law, equal protection of the laws, the fundamental values that are at the core of our Constitution, that runs really deep.
James comey— CNN Town Hall, 26 April 2018
protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
john c. calhoun— Speech in the House of Representatives (12 December 1811).
