#protection

For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#importance #longing #love #protection #roses

Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#protection #segregation #love

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

#depend #herself #i #man #must

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#back #country #creation #everglades #front

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#constitution #heart #her #his #home

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. ↗

— William Blackstone

#every #good #individual #interested #more

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#chip #connections #copy #file #i

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#case #enquirer #experience #know #magazines

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#christian religion #christians #denominations #entitled #equal

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#certain #certain kinds #courts #deserve #documentation