“In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.” PeopleWayYearsStruggleGoneClearTreeCircumstancesProtectYears AgoTinyForestsParksOver ItIsolatedPatchesFlewTanzaniaStruggling To Survive Author:Jane Goodall
“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.” IfsMenWantYearsHumansHas BeensTwoReasonRealityTodayTogetherGivenHuman BeingsSpaceCitiesViolenceCitizensThousandProtectEqualYears AgoInventionRealmsConsiderationAggressiveBrotherhoodThousand YearsSymptomsBrotherhood Of Man Author:Robert Ardrey
“Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.” NeedsYearsWarAbleLessonsHorrorProtectHundredYears AgoThreatDeterminedAncestorDominationHomelandDevastatedResoluteSouthernerArms Race Book:Jimmy Carter Source: Jimmy Carter
“I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsFirstsChildrenDoeHas BeensSelfGovernmentLawInterestProtectYears AgoProductionsAmendmentsBobFree SpeechBurnedPornographySelf InterestMarketplaceDissentFirst AmendmentWitchcraft Author:Erica Jong
“The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.” YearsWantedCultureDealsMoralMillionsProtectYears AgoTestsSellsInvestmentProfitClientsBankingAdequateBankersInvestment BankingRetailing Author:Charlie Munger
“Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.” ShouldYearsImportantGovernmentSubjectsProtectYears AgoAmendmentsSecond AmendmentRepealing Author:George Will
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.” KnowsWantNeedsYearsHumansChildrenLongDreamBodyEyeCareLastsNightWalksKnow HowStageCostProtectYears AgoCatFunctionVulnerableNecksGrayDedicatedWant MeLast NightGuardianNurturingStalkingInfancyYou Want MeHybridFetusMutants Author:William S. Burroughs
“Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.” WorldYearsTwoWarThreeRichProtectSmartYears AgoPrivilegeBelongingHonourLockedSmarterTrust MeBeing SmartCivilised Author:Michael Ondaatje
“Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.” GivingYearsMeanIdeasHappensTogetherGirlPoorRichFiveProtectYears AgoClubsUglySillyCelebrateNo IdeaBeastFive YearsSeventiesMaking UpGiving MoneyBanding TogetherSilly Girl Book:The Peach Keeper: A Novel Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel