#rote

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#ever #freedom #history #making #people

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#memorandum #protect #reader #writer #written

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good. ↗

— Hasil Adkins

#could #get #good #got #hear

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

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#everything #i #just #room #said

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. ↗

— Jane Badler

#angela #everyone #fantastic #i #lovely

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

The guy that's going to kick your ass for hurting her. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#protective #adrian-ivashkov

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don't get super tan. You have to protect the face. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#get #hats #i #like #protect