Quotes with keepers

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• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

  Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

  David Mamet
  American Playwright (1947 - )
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• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  John Adams
  President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• occasionally
• proposition
• conceivable
• dangerous
• policemen
• liberties

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