Best 454 quotes in «protection quotes» category

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Presidents are given immense power in the American political system when it comes to personnel. FBI directors are given ten-year terms to insulate them from politics as much as one can, but it's not absolute protection. If a president wants to fire an FBI director, they can do that.

[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to socially produced problems are now relegated to the mantra of individual solutions.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

The love and protection of the Holy Spirit are with you in all spiritual concerns.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

There have been enormous advances since 9/11 to build a very robust set of targeting procedures and watch lists to screen travelers coming to the United States. The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.

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.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

There is no protection against slander.

There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.

The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.

We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.