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Yousef Munayyer American writer
In response over a video of a shooting by IDF soldiers on prostestors during the 2018 Gaza border protests. (April 10 2018) https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-israel-sniper-video/
“Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.”
Tzachi Hanegbi (1957) Israeli politician
Public radio, after the twin suicide bombings in Beer Sheva (August 31, 2004)
“Silence is a fence around wisdom.”
Maimónides (1138–1204) rabbi, physician, philosopher
Source: Hilkhot De'ot (Laws Concerning Character Traits), Chapter 2, Section 5, p. 33
“Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.”
Samuli Paronen (1917–1974)
Samuli Paronen, quoted in: M.kumar. Dictionary of Quotations, APH Publishing, 2008. p. 168
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (1988)
Context: The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”
John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 94
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.