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“Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.”

Country States Law Interest Levels Benefits Resources West Investment South International Territory Protected Sovereign Participation Deprived International Law Legality

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with the Constitution, but the reality of state - society relations is dramatically altered by the counter-terrorist claims of emergency rule and the right of exception.”

States Reality Form Democracy Speech Constitution Claims Relation Election Institutions Terrorist Exception Protected Free Speech Emergencies Altered American Society

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Kids are probably frustrated and egos are too much involved and kids don't know how to get together and be kids and start a group and it's kind of sad because I feel like if you come out with three or four people in the beginning, you can be protected and everybody can shield each other. Before you get out there by yourself and get all these people coming at you. I just think it's not really there.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Kind Kids Together Three Know How Too Much Four Groups Involved Ego Protected Frustrated Shields Get Together

Author:Raphael Saadiq

“Unsettled Middle East, in these times where the people are trying to find their way towards democracy, could be interesting for many reasons - for weapons to be sold, for new geostrategic interests to be protected, and something that we are not talking about, which is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The people who are lost in the whole discussion here are the Palestinians. We have demonstrations in Palestine in West Bank. Nobody is covering this. It's as if they don't exist anymore. And this is, in fact, central. And Israel is silent.”

“When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.”

Turns Profession Academic Protected Inward Tenure Academic Freedom

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of getting cut off. Scholars should write, at least sometimes, for the general public.”

Should Writing Sometimes Realizing Cutting Risk Good Things Academic Scholar Protected General Public Tenure Academic Freedom

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.”

War Country Economic Europe Increase Police Greek Lazy Brotherhood Protected Hostility European Countries

Author:Marine Le Pen

“Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and every government department, that power has to be kept secret otherwise it will fade and it won't work. But Bradley Manning is violating that principle.”

Government Secret Principles Department Priests Fades Protected Dictatorship Harvard Scrutiny Autocracy Kept Secrets Bradley Manning

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.”

Country Police Brotherhood Protected European Countries Angela

Author:Marine Le Pen

“He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.”

Five Praying Protection Protected Caliphs

Author:Abu Bakr

“When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.”

Feels Play Safe Protected Fulfilled

Author:Alec Baldwin

“I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.”

Made Whole Government Effort Protect Whole Life Data Protected Best Effort

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.”

People World Made War America Courses Grew Cold Grew Up War Of The Worlds Japan Vietnam World War Ii Protected Cold War Extensions Asia Vietnam War Korean Taiwan Korean War Good War

Author:Ang Lee

“My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.”

People Should Persons Important Individual Differences My Own Planets Diversity Consumers Protected Preference Personal Preferences

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.”

Want Feels Care Artist Responsibility Taken Protected Backyards Taking Things For Granted

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”

Certain Survival Protected Flavor

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.”

People Done Light Names Criticism British Absurd Protected Machinery British Politics

Author:Steven Morrissey

“We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.”

People Risk Operations Protected Scope Casualties Libya Escalation

Author:Barack Obama

“I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.”

Way Giving Believe May Joy I Believe Records Return Satisfaction Accidents Gods Will This Life Believe In God Protected Up To You Without God

Author:Joel Osteen

“I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.”

Should Kind Children Care Law Wealth Race Groups Demand Claims Blind Prosperity Gender Protected Elderly Disabled Orientation Frailty

Author:Camille Paglia

“You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.”

Should Individual Usa Protected

Author:Ron Paul

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Book:A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

Source: A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

“We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.”

Way Two Country Serious Ocean Fortunate Vulnerability Territory Protected

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.”

Knows Needs Wells Causes Numbers Protected Reproductive Health

Author:Ann Richards

“I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Country Reason Facts Eye Interest Powerful Groups Theory Smart Conspiracy Protected Conspiracy Theory Wool

Author:Jason Ritter

“People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.”

People Persons Ideas Done Prejudice Protected

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.”

Thinking Law Christianity Islam Protected Quran Monogamy

Author:Annie Besant

“If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.”

Ifs Conservative Protected Conservatism Hateful

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.”

Literature Protected Dissent Free Society

Author:Natan Sharansky

“We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.”

Needs Giving Government Vote Constitution Amendments Protected Federal Government Right To Vote

Author:Al Sharpton

“When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.”

Ifs Certain Rights Labels Insecurity Protected Competent Attorney

Author:Tommy Shaw

“My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.”

Ifs Looks Wanted Mother Models Protected

Author:Brooke Shields

“Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.”

Men Rocks Band Rock N Roll Protected Tanks

Author:Grace Slick

“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”

May Children Ideas Belief Vulnerable Protected Controversial Immune Germs Infection Belief Systems Immune System

Author:Jane Smiley

“Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.”

Knows Want Children Enough Parent Decision Particular Agendas Protected

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.”

Trying Years Character Would Be Audience Relationship Lows Protected Profile

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.”

Men Giving Government Order Rights Giving Up Injustice Apology Protected Absurdity Consent

Book:The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

Source: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

“I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.”

Believe Lasts Next I Believe Species I Believe In Protected Reincarnation Next Time Eagles Peasants

Author:Lee Trevino

“The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?”

Firsts Form Company Expression Magazines These Days Amendments Protected Perfume First Amendment Advertisements Advertising Agencies

Author:Calvin Trillin

“People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.”

People Want Needs Country States Can Do United United States Rights Constitution Bills Protected Airports Bill Of Rights Redress

Author:Jesse Ventura

“I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.”

Littles Feelings Expectations Disappointed Protected

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.”

People Bigs Black White Poor Cities Rich Evidence Areas Vote Voting Fraud Protected Absent Hispanic Right To Vote Big Cities Rich Or Poor Rural Areas

Author:Juan Williams

“We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.”

Self Letting Go Protected

Book:Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral

“The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.”

Matter Virtue Intimate Privacy Protected

Author:Tiger Woods

“But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Persons Lying Politics Company Knowing Fame Newspapers Amendments Protected First Amendment

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I've been truly protected by my uncles.”

Protected Uncles

Author:will.i.am

“Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.”

Should Children Young Actors Animal Industry Picks Organization Vulnerable Shooting Protected Location Young Children Movie Industry

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.”

Knows Mean Play Stories Artist Culture Space Mistake Roles Creative Scientist Innovation Sacred Cease Protected Breakthrough Edits Glorify Experimentation Sacred Space

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.”

World Children Hands Care Girl Evil Poor Results Laughing Hair Husband Wide Enormous Kitchen Rough Protected Soap Inadequate Bleeding Posture Housewife Gum Facial Slender Flakes Unruly

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?”

People Mind Long Has Beens Three Sides Path Week Sitting Crosses Clouds Glasses Protected Fog Chasing Corpses Tourists Waiter Stormy Cafes

Author:Werner Herzog

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