Quotes About Protection

A central part of the torturer's craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

The results were stunning. Among the children who had been "protected" from peanuts, 17% had developed a peanut allergy. In the group that had been deliberately exposed to peanut products, only 3% had developed an allergy.

The modern obsession with protecting young people from "feeling unsafe" is, we believe, one of the (several) causes of the rapid rise in rates of adolescent depression, anxiety, and suicide, which we'll explore in chapter

This principle—the need for democracies to protect the rights of minorities—was one of the reasons that the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights) were added so quickly. (You don't need a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of the majority in a democracy, because the vote already does that.)

What is new today is the premise that students are fragile. Even those who are not fragile themselves often believe that others are in danger and therefore need protection. There is no expectation that students will grow stronger from their encounters with speech or texts they label "triggering." (This is the Untruth of Fragility: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.)

This is what we mean when we talk about safetyism. Safety is good, of course, and keeping others safe from harm is virtuous

What is new today is the premise that students are fragile. Even those who are not fragile themselves often believe that others are in danger and therefore need protection. There is no expectation that students will grow stronger from their encounters with speech or texts they label "triggering.

sesgo de confirmación-, la tendencia a buscar e interpretar nuevas pruebas de formas que confirmen lo que uno piensa. A las personas se les da muy bien cuestionar las afirmaciones hechas por otros, pero cuando se trata de su creencia, entonces es su posesión, casi como una hija, y en ese caso lo que quieren es protegerla, no cuestionarla y arriesgarse a perderla.

attachment theory, a well-supported theory that describes the system by which mothers and children regulate each other's behavior so that the child gets a good mix of protection and opportunities for independent exploration.6

The Care/harm foundation

They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

If no laws applied to them, then no laws protected them either.

Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent.

Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

It is when we are most blessed that we are most in need of protection – and the protection for which we pray is that the blessing remain a blessing and not turn into a curse – the curse of forgetting from where the blessings come.

A true parent is one who fights battles on our behalf when we are young and defenceless, but who, once we have matured, gives us the inner strength to fight for ourselves.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our back, and Lockwood standing in between them, calm and unafraid.

If you think I suddenly trust you, Bartimeaus —" "Oh, don't trust me , whatever you do. Trust your summons. I'm charged to keep you safe at this point, aren't I?

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.

But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you.