Protecting Ourselves Quotes

#1. If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Geneen Roth

#3. 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

#4. Imagine what it would be like if we all saw each other as being more similar rather than different - how much less effort and energy would be spent on protecting ourselves and how much more fulfilling our interactions would be with each other.

Clifford Michaels

#5. The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

Tariq Ramadan

#6. And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. 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

#8. You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Fred Thompson

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

Dale Peck

#12. The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

John Green

#13. The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.

Larry Crabb

#14. All I know is that protecting someone from the truth is just another way of shutting them out.

K. Bromberg

#15. Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

Jeffrey Kluger

#16. What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Margaret MacMillan

#17. He was protecting. He was saving. Yet he was killing. How could something so terrible be so beautiful at the same time?

Brandon Sanderson

#18. At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.

Jay Woodman

#19. Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic notion of fairness? Isn't that in the Constitution? Where is the fairness to American citizens here?

Rush Limbaugh

#20. Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

Russell Kirk

#21. While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

Helen Maria Williams

#22. You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

Julien Smith

#23. The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.

Lisa Randall

#24. Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

J. L. B. Smith

#25. In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

Gautama Buddha

#26. Media was once about protecting a name; on the web it is about building one.

Ryan Holiday

#27. The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

George Reisman

#28. One who sees everything was looking out for Jesus. A much greater power than a mother was protecting him; as Jesus put it to Mary, he was in his Father's house.

Schuyler Peterson

#29. I'm not only my father's daughter, but also a daughter of the nation he founded. And protecting both is what I've always done.

Laura Kamoie

#30. But how can psychotherapists purport to dispel the illusions of their clients while protecting and maintaining their own? Furthermore, a therapist's belief in and commitment to the therapeutic process ought not to be based on naive idealism, but rather on realistic appraisal.

Michael Sussman

#31. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

George Clooney

#32. I'm definitely happier dancing in Germany; in the U.S., there's a different level of competition. I find in general that I try to get my voice heard about protecting women. It comes from everything I've been through personally - I'm opinionated, and that doesn't make it that easy.

Sarah Hay

#33. A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

Kanye West

#34. Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory.

Sun Tzu

#35. Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

Elie Wiesel

#36. The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in ... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sarah Dessen

#37. In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Walter E. Williams

#38. Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.

Harold Edmund Stearns

#39. The things we do in the name of protecting others are so often attempts to spare some part of ourselves.

Angela Flournoy

#40. 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

#41. Tonglen means "taking in and sending out". This meditation practice is designed to help ordinary people like ourselves connect with the openness and softness of our hearts. Instead of shielding and protecting our soft spot, with tonglen we could let ourselves feel what it is to be human.

Pema Chodron

#42. Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.

Nhat Hanh

#43. Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

George McGovern

#44. Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

Sholem Asch

#45. Our calling in life really is this simple (although not therefore easy): We are to devote ourselves to working/building and keeping/protecting everything placed into our charge.

Richard D. Phillips

#46. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

Mark Shields

#47. There's no protecting anyone," Fix said, and reached over from his wheelchair to put his hand on hers. "Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.

Ann Patchett

#48. Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.

Ann Robinson

#49. When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,

Dick Cheney

#50. Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.

Lisa Unger

#51. There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

N.K. Jemisin

#52. I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Alexei Navalny

#53. Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.

Max Lucado

#54. We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would be efficient in protecting the Euro-Atlantic region from threats coming outside this region.

Sergei Lavrov

#55. We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

Ronald Reagan

#56. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

George Soros

#57. The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

Jack Zipes

#58. Protecting the grassland is hard on us. If we don't kill wolves, they'll be fewer of us. But if we kill too many of them, there'll be even fewer.

Jiang Rong

#59. In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Chuck Schumer

#60. I'd say I'm a true conservative. Liberals have got a monopoly on protecting the environment, or all the cool technology, and I don't think we should cede that territory.

Thomas Massie

#61. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Eric Gagne

#62. Some doors remain closed because God is protecting you from the horrible things behind them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#63. off the field, a real man doesn't bully the smaller or weaker person. A man rises above all such nonsense, you know? It's what being a man's about - protecting the weak, helping them get stronger, and standing up for what you believe in, on and off the field.

Michele Micheal Rakes

#64. Like the thick quilt I'd played under as a child, the dark felt familiar and protecting.

Stephenie Meyer

#65. There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

James Cromwell

#66. The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.

William E. Burrows

#67. If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#68. Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death ...

Hideaki Sorachi

#69. Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

Charles B. Rangel

#70. Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

Yitzhak Rabin

#71. I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.

Angelina Jolie

#72. I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Gale Norton

#73. Good. Because I don't need protecting."
"I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.

Cassandra Clare

#74. Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer.

Steven D. Levitt

#75. It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

Jodi Picoult

#76. If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.

Billy Bragg

#77. When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become ... as strong as they can be.

Masashi Kishimoto

#78. I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place.

Tijan