#rote

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#few #friends #governments #loved #many

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#american #american people #incorporated #just #labor

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#come #guerrillas #i #protect #regardless

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#fascinated #fire #friends #got #i

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#find #gratified #i #really #room

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#culture #goes #itself #norms #outside

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#child #constituency #does #exist #politician

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#accomplished #awards #books #discuss #final

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— Plato

#first #other #protector #root #springs