Function Quote by Emile M. Cioran

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always…

— Errico Malatesta

Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with…

— Richard A. Falk

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy,…

— Clare of Assisi

The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which…

— Luis de Camoes

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors…

— Stephanie Coontz

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned,…

— Gerrit Smith

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

— Francois Hollande

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly…

— David Byrne

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

— Tyra Banks

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of…

— Ken Blackwell

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

— Quentin Crisp

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights…

— William Paterson