#guard

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. ↗

— Reverend B. Smith

#atheist #bodyguard #caesar #christian #divine

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. ↗

— Aeschylus

#bigger #guarded #love #man #married

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. ↗

— Aeschines

#assured #citizen #citizens #constitution #democracy

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#abuse #against #care #chicanery #democracy

I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#bloody #character #guard #i #iraqi

And because a human heart is flawed, her heart moved on. But an angel's heart is an entirely different thing. Once it loves someone it never stops. ↗

— Todd Mitchell

#love

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-strong #healing #heartbreak #letting-down-the-walls #letting-go

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#diffusion #guardian #knowledge #liberty #only

Liberals always say about totalitarians that they like humanity, as such, but they have no empathy for concrete people, no? OK, that fits me perfectly. Humanity? Yes, it's OK – some great talks, some great arts. Concrete people? No, 99% are boring idiots. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#interview #art

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. ↗

— John Baldacci

#development #economic #economic development #embrace #homeland