Protected Quotes - Page 17

• I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Taken, Responsibility, Artist

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• Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

  Harvey Mackay

  Decision, Doubt, Ethical

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• Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Survival, Flavor, Certain

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• Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Light, Names, People

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• We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

  Barack Obama

  People, Risk, Casualties

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Giving, Joy

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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• Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

  Ann Richards

  Numbers, Needs, Causes

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• I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.

  Jason Ritter

  Country, Powerful, Smart

  "Blair Underwood & Jason Ritter talk 'The Event'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 18, 2010.

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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, People, Prejudice

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• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Conservative, Hateful, Conservatism

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• Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

  Natan Sharansky

  Literature, Dissent, Free Society

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• We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

  Al Sharpton

  Government, Giving, Needs

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• Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” “Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!” “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Art, Dad, Dark

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• Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Boys, Brain, Tasks

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

  Josephine Humphreys

  People, World, Should

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• Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Car, Heaven, Tanks

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• Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Play, Ideas, Democracy

  In Defense of Women, rev. ed., introduction (1922)

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• Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?

  Francine Rivers

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hands, Jail, Contentment

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• It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Nice, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.154, Penguin

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• Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

  Jodi Picoult

  Too Late, Alex, Care

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• When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Powerful, Cities

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• Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

  Octavia Butler

  Ignorance, Blind, Quails

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.244, Open Road Media

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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