| "As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency." »Raymond Chandler |
| "Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection." »Francis Bacon |
| "Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit." »John Stuart Mill |
| "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 |
| "I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand." »Susan B. Anthony |
| "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 |
| "We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege." »Lawton Chiles |
| "America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society." »Peter Kropotkin |
| "Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." »Buddha |
| "Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound" »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery |
| "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." »Victor Cousin |
| "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 DaVinci |
| "One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov |
| "Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race" »Albert Einstein |
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