#rote

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#done #move #politics #protect #suspension

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#better #cherish #clear #enforcement #ensure

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it. ↗

— James Bovard

#against #amazing #blind #blind faith #country

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#become #been #burdens #continue #entirely

I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#announced #confident #country #even #food

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#demand #made #many #read #reason

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to die today!' with our music playing - that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#die #going #good #good thing #i