Top 100 Protect Ourselves Quotes
#1. We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.
Moshe Ya'alon
#2. We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.
Steven Pinker
#3. There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'
Hill Harper
#4. I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.
Lady Gaga
#5. Said to him. "We aren't playing here. Guns kill people." "Guns don't kill people," Tori said. "People kill people." "People with guns kill people," I said. "But you're right. We have to be able to protect ourselves.
D.J. MacHale
#6. Some day you cross this thin line and you really realize that we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.
Douglas Coupland
#7. There is a darkness coming that not even Starclan can prevent. And when it comes, we will be helpless to protect the Clans. Helpless even to protect ourselves.
Erin Hunter
#8. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
Matt Chandler
#9. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.
Elisa Marie Hopkins
#10. Turn your cheek' only works with physical slaps, only works pre-Second coming. Against guns, bombs, and the most inhumane practices ever conceived, we must protect ourselves. We must become the agents of God's vengeance.
Peter Tieryas
#12. We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.
Pamela Ribon
#13. I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#14. We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
Glenn Close
#15. That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.
Laura Esquivel
#16. I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
Bill Maher
#17. The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
Merle Shain
#18. Our house is made of glass ... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
Joyce Carol Oates
#19. I am embarrassed. We are all embarrassed. We Americans have guided our destinies so clumsily, with all the world watching, that we must now protect ourselves against our own government and our own industries.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
Pema Chodron
#21. However, no matter what the size, color, or shape is, the point is still to lean toward the discomfort of life and see it clearly rather than to protect ourselves from it.
Pema Chodron
#22. It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. I wonder if we protect ourselves from our fears by choosing to love people we cannot get near so they cannot hurt us.
Sara Alexi
#24. It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
Bruce Schneier
#25. Secrets.
We keep them to protect ourselves.
We keep them to protect others.
We keep them out of shame.
We keep them out of fear.
We keep them... wait... do we keep them for do they keep us?
Ellen Hopkins
#26. When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.
Jonathan Martin
#27. Anggia, as women we need to protect ourselves from getting hurt. But sometimes hurt is inevitable that we just have to deal with it. - Kylie, Remember When
Winna Efendi
#28. The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H.P. Lovecraft
#29. Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless.
Jesmyn Ward
#30. moving on means we have to protect ourselves.
Jojo Moyes
#31. Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
Mark Kennedy
#32. If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.
Ali Sina
#33. Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.
James C. Dobson
#34. We build walls to protect ourselves from the hurt and pain. But someday you will realize that you are alone, in your own prison.
S.C. Rhyne
#35. Beliefs are the umbrella that we use to protect ourselves on rainy days.
Debasish Mridha
#36. We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
Bill Nelson
#37. Why should the Increate protect us from ourselves? We might protect ourselves from ourselves. It may be that he will help us only when we come to regret what we have done.
Gene Wolfe
#38. Let's vow to never become monsters that we are trying to protect ourselves from.
Stephanie Perkins
#39. Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
Richard Burr
#40. Trying to escape media influences in today's culture is as feasible as trying to protect ourselves from air pollution by not breathing.
Brene Brown
#41. We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.
Rand Paul
#42. My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
Johnny Isakson
#44. But ... sometimes, Louisa, moving on means we do have to protect ourselves.
Jojo Moyes
#45. I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.
Rick Yune
#46. Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.
Jesse Lee Peterson
#48. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sometimes I think we don't want to
Sogyal Rinpoche
#49. Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#50. The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
Alain Juppe
#51. Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.
Wayne LaPierre
#52. We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.
Shane Claiborne
#53. We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.
Paul Kurtz
#54. Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
Jack Kornfield
#55. We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.
Dani Shapiro
#56. To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#57. The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys [politicians] up there.
Suzanna Hupp
#58. We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need
the umbrella of God's love.
Barbara Johnson
#59. These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.
Sherry Turkle
#60. Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.
Kalle Lasn
#61. While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished.
Billy Graham
#62. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...
Megan Johns
#63. We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.
Sharon Weil
#64. Our lives aren't ours, darling," she murmured. "We are only the caretakers of this magic. We don't use it to protect ourselves - we use it only to protect the Kupari. They call us queens, but what we really are is servants.
Sarah Fine
#65. Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
Joy Adamson
#66. Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
Starhawk
#67. We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society.
Saleem Haddad
#68. We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.
Cesar Chavez
#69. The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
Diane Ackerman
#70. Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
Veronica Roth
#71. Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.
Truth Devour
#72. When introverts sense invasion, we instinctively shut down to protect our inner resources. But in doing so, we lose access to ourselves. From this defensive position, we may feel that our only options are to practice extroversion, go underground, or go crazy.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#73. The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
Jack Hanna
#74. On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it.
Paul Ryan
#75. No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.
Celia Gilbert
#76. We need, then, to protect a time and a place for timeless time, and to remind ourselves continually that this is not self-indulgent but rather crucial to intellectual work. If we don't find timeless time, there is evidence that not only our work but also our brains will suffer.
Maggie Berg
#77. But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.
David Price
#78. Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
Duke Ellington
#79. We decide ourselves whether to do right or wrong, whether to be good or evil. For some, it is fear that keeps them within the law, but for others it is a greater sense of good. I do not think any religion can make a person good, or protect a good person from bad happening to him.
Kathleen Givens
#80. In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?
Helen Clark
#81. If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even be a contest. But if they do not, and Minnesota can come in here and run the football, we are going to have ourselves a good game tonight.
Marshall Faulk
#82. When we are aware of the pain, we have to train ourselves to lean into that pain. By leaning into the pain, we resist the temptation to avoid building fig leaves that protect us from the fear we feel regarding who we are. Our feelings are critical to our spiritual development.
Chris McAlister
#83. The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.
Michael Crichton
#84. Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
Joseph Sobran
#85. We are not only to use our armor to protect and defend ourselves from them - as important as that is - but also to go on the offensive against them as well. When we do that, we close doors to the enemy and open doors to the will of God to be done on earth. We advance God's kingdom.
Stormie O'martian
#86. It's hard to believe we're barricading ourselves against the one boy who used to protect me.
Shannon Duffy
#87. I love the military. They don't get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.
Ric Flair
#88. We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.
David Carr
#89. The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
Frans De Waal
#90. We cannot protect people from the lessons we ourselves have learned.
Kij Johnson
#91. Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them
Morena Baloyi
#92. [It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love ... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for ... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.
Katie Aselton
#93. Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen
#94. We are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day.
Monica Brant
#95. Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#96. In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.
John Burnside
#97. We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
Yvon Chouinard
#98. Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves.
Holly Black
#99. We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.
Ron Paul
#100. It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.
Ron Paul
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