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«If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)»
Author: Theodore Dreiser
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
attributed, bandage, bandaged, bandages, bloody, circumstance, invented, personally, protect
«Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.»
Author: Wendell Phillips
(Abolitionist, Orator)
| About:
Government,
Minority
| Keywords:
governments, minorities, protect, protection
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.»
«God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.»
«Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
Beyond the Limits, deciding, exists, gone, limits, protect, U.S. government
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
«Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Right,
Voting
| Keywords:
individual rights, majorities, minorities, minority, oppression, precisely, protect, right to vote, smallest, subject to, the smallest, vote
«A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
defend, easily, her, He Said She Said, men, much, protect, reputation, She, virtue, woman, women
«All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
all too, bear in mind, cases, Equal rights, majority, minority, prevail, principle, protect, reasonable, rightful, sacred
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