Protect Yourself Quotes - Page 4

• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Islamic, Apology

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Gun, Independence, Population

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There is just something that people taught me in general for self-care, would just be to spend some time alone and to protect yourself. Learning to say no is something that helps in that, and what you're comfortable with and what you're not comfortable with, and finding the line. That's it. Otherwise it's just going to be really hard.

  Rowan Blanchard

  People, Helping, Protect

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does.

  Tracy Martin

  Gun, Protect, Firearms

  Source: time.com

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• I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.

  Christian Scott

  Sports, Player, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We haven't been leading anybody. We've been acquiescing to a bunch of linguini-spined leftists all over the world, at the United Nations, in NATO, wherever it is. The people who don't even pay for their own defense. The people that don't even believe in guns and bullets to protect yourself are the people we have been acquiescing to. And they think this is called leadership. Leadership is sponsoring America's decline. Leadership is administering America's decline. Leadership is admitting that America's superpower status was never deserved or warranted.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Character, Self, Fake

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.

  Scarlett Alice Johnson

  Nice, Gun, Knives

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.

  Eddie Vedder

  Moving, Keys, Want

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Vietnam, Ends, Protect

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• For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

  Rebecca Stead

  Real, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weapons, Protect

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hero, Levels, Tvs

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• You don’t need an AR-15. It’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact, you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun.

  Joe

  Needs, Use, Facts

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• Protect the ocean and you protect yourself.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Ocean, Protect

  "Jean-Michel Cousteau Heads Beach Clean-Up for Earth Day". Interview with Debbie L. Sklar, patch.com. Apr 19, 2012.

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• Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

  Maya Angelou

  Love You, Laughing, Trying

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• Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become.

  David Deida

  Real, Heart, Choices

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• It’s one thing to protect yourself,” Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. “That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?” I shrugged. “A seven-figure civil suit?

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Dad, School

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.181, Scholastic Inc.

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• I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Growing, Life Learning

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.

  Jeff Kinney

  Kids, One Day, Way

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

  Ai Weiwei

  Giving Up, Mean, Responsibility

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