Self Protection Quotes:

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

- Alice Miller

topic: Children, Self, Feelings, Self Protection

In my view, the right to bear arms is in the Constitution for three main reasons: self-protection, community protection, and protection from tyrrany.

- Glenn Beck

source: Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

topic: Self, Views, Community, Self Protection

You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.

- Elizabeth Streb

topic: Self, Protection, Barriers, Self Protection

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Freedom, Self, Support, Self Protection, Self Support

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

- Michael J. Gelb

topic: Airplane, Self, Television, Self Protection

The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Sex, Self, Atmosphere, Disenchantment, Eros

I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.

- Scott Snyder

topic: Hero, Character, Sacrifice, Infallible, Self Protection

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Morning, Spring, Winter, Pioneering, Swept Away

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

- Alan Dershowitz

source: "Social media abuzz over Piers Morgan vs. Alex Jones" by Josh Levs, Ben Brumfield, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2013.

topic: Real, Gun, Hunting, Self Protection

Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.129, Harvard University Press

topic: Mother, Fear, Children, Self Protection

The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Healing, Self, Order, Self Healing, Self Protection

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

topic: Commitment, Self, Style, Protecting Ourselves, Self Protection

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

- Walpola Rahula

topic: Children, Ignorance, Men, Safety And Security, Atman

Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Mean, Gun, Men, Crime Rates, Self Protection

Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

- Horace Mann

source: Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

topic: Education, School, Character, Self Protection

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.

- Alison Rosen

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Self, Healthy, Discrimination, Self Protection

Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on to children, often through the dynamic of self-protection. It hurts to be neglected, and it creates questions about our value to others. So to avoid feeling the sting of further rejection, we refuse to give that part of ourselves we fear might once again be received with indifference.

- Larry Crabb

source: Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

topic: Self Protection, Sins Of The Father

It is true that the vast majority of gun deaths in America are not the consequence of the use of an 'assault weapon.' But that begs the question of whether assault weapons have any real utility either in terms of any sporting or self protection needs.

- Joe Biden

topic: Real, Gun, Self, Self Protection

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Morning, Spring, Buddhism, Pioneering, Swept Away

Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

source: Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

topic: Team, Self, Play, Self Protection

It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.

- Lillie Devereux Blake

topic: Heart, Night, Men, Hunted, Self Protection

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

topic: Self, Soul, Society, Self Protection

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.11, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Self, Bravery, India, Self Protection

Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

- Jan Hunt

source: Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

topic: Children, School, Ignorance, Toddler, Self Protection

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Warrior, Self, Waste, Ammo, Self Protection

Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.

- Fukuzawa Yukichi

source: Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1988). “Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese women: selected works”, Univ of Tokyo Pr

topic: Self, Law, Giving, Self Protection, General Education