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Quotes About Protection

Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I would be—and will be—much disappointed in you if you ever simply injure a policeman. A wounded policeman is more dangerous than a wounded lion.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The Mother Thing makes our world.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Angeles was safe from invasion; the invaders wouldn't find a place to park—I
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The general drops with a small combat staff, plus a small team of the roughest, on-the-bounce troopers in the M.I. Their job is to keep the general from being bothered by rude strangers while he is managing the battle. Sometimes they succeed.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Voják pÃ…â"¢ijímá osobní odpovÄ›dnost za bezpe?nost obce, ke které pÃ…â"¢ináleží, a v pÃ…â"¢ípadÄ› nutnosti ji brání svým životem. Civilista to nedÄ›lá.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Well, we shoot mad dogs, don't we?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves." "I'm afraid he's right." "My husband, I can't evaluate my opinions of right and wrong because I learned them from my parents and haven't lived long enough to have formed opinions in disagreement with theirs." "Deety, your parents did okay.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I wished that I were back on the Hunters' farm, bathed in the warm protectiveness of Mrs. Hunter. I wished that I were in Vicksburg, sharing mutual loneliness with Georges.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Only enough to protect the organization. Friday, you are well aware that the absence of Eyes and Ears today simply means that they are concealed. Be assured that I am shameless about protecting the organization.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Who watches his mouth guards his own life, 3 who cracks open his lips knows disaster.
~ Robert Alter
Any multi-cellular organism must, if it is to survive, contain a hard-wired bio-survival circuit, which very simply programs an either-or choice: GO FORWARD to the nourishing, the protective, or GO BACK, away from the threatening, the predatory.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Candy nodded absently. "Okay," she said. "What shall I wear?" "A gun," I said.
~ Robert B. Parker
Freedom of the press is a flaming sword," I said. "Use it wisely, hold it high, guard it well.
~ Robert B. Parker
You wanted me to insist. You wanted me to win the argument." "Wanted is too simple," Susan said. She had shifted her gaze from her martini to the ongoing afternoon outside her kitchen window. "I wanted and didn't want. I needed both my autonomy and your protection. By acting the way I did, I managed to have both.
~ Robert B. Parker
Asking your husband to go one-on-one with Joe Broz is like putting a guppy in the piranha pool. If we don't find him before Broz does, he'll be eaten alive.
~ Robert B. Parker
Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.
~ Robert Bloch
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
~ Robert Browning
He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.
~ Robert Cormier
Muthuhfuckin' muthuhfucker! I oughta come over there kick your ass myself, worryin'me like this? I got your back homes! I got your back!
~ Robert Crais
Patrol dogs and Military Working Dogs were trained to protect their handlers. If the handler was attacked, and unconscious, or fighting for his or her life, the dog had to know what to do without being told. As Leland said, "These animals aren't robots, goddamnit! They think! You train her up right, this beautiful dog will watch your back better than a squad of goddamned Marines!
~ Robert Crais
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
~ Robert Crais