Quotes About Protection

The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don't want to be either it's best to stay back.

If you're afraid of wolves,' said Varvara Sidorovna, 'don't go to the woods.

A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk. Other knights serve the lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every knight swears to protect the weak and innocent, but we keep the vow the best, I think.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Ben Franklin

parapets…I felt the battlements close in, enfolding

Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.

The word 'camouflage' simply means 'to have a family'.

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.

I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

the new administration was leaning toward moving consumer protection duties outside the Fed

I was ambivalent about the proposal for a new consumer protection regulator.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Reserve—nor would it be appropriate—to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their financial decisions.

Greenspan did not put a high priority on consumer protection.

The government doesn't allow sales of flammable children's pajamas, for example, no matter how clear the warning label.

some products should just be kept out of the marketplace.

There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa.

As a society, we have robbed men of their protective missions. Men who seek to protect women and children are called anti-feminist, gender normative. Men have abandoned their responsibilities to the state. As for building things — well, there too, men have been told that to build is to act selfishly, without concern for the community. And young men have no male role models, since many of their fathers have abandoned them or abandoned true maleness in pursuit of vainglorious brutality.

That's why Thomas Jefferson didn't write that the government was granted power to grant you happiness: it was there to protect your pursuit of happiness. The government existed to protect your rights, to prevent those rights from being infringed upon.

What, then, of communal capacity? The community was tasked with two separate functions: instilling virtue in the citizenry, and protecting the citizens from the violation of natural law.

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.