Quotes About Protection

Not only can there be no seduction, but there can be no rape either without a minimal signal. A being capable of truly extinguishing all signals and emitting no anticipated response would be protected even from violence. This is indeed the attitude we instinctively take when faced with physical aggression or aggressive demands – suppression of the signals of fear or desire.

A pill against your house burning down.

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

Safety is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.

Six books… my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

I say I appear naked before you, but so often I whistle for my invisible armed guard; the gap-toothed, jeering, club-headed mob, my feelings, that are used to having me to themselves.

There's no such thing as a limited victory. You must protect what you have won. You must take is seriously.

The hard-bound space hides the vulnerable self.

Feeling. I didn't want to feel.

I will set you in the sky and name you. I will hide you in the earth like treasure.

For myself, with no one to love, a hedgehog spirit seemed best and I hid my heart in the leaves.

It works because the principle of personal space is always the same, whether you're fending off an elemental or someone's bad mood. It's a force field around yourself, and as long as our imagining powers are weak, it's useful to have something to remind us.

Whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

I may not spare you, I said. For I would rather spare all those who would come into contact with you, were you to be left alive.

Walls protect and walls limit.

Mia madre non voleva che i libri cadessero nelle mie mani. Non aveva previsto che io potessi cadere nei libri, che mi infilassi dentro di loro per stare al sicuro.

Trouver une forme d'association qui défende et protège de toute la force commune la personne et les biens de chaque associé, et par laquelle chacun s'unissant à tous n'obéisse pourtant qu'à lui-même et reste aussi libre qu'auparavant. Tel est le problème fondamental dont le contrat social donne la solution.

I would rather be exposed to all their torments than be obliged to think about them in order to protect myself from their attacks.

You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.

J'étais bien. Je regardais les miens. Je pouvais sentir battre leur cÅ"ur et respirer leur souffle. Auprès d'eux je me sentais en paix. J'avais le sentiment qu'ils protégeaient ma vie, tous les trois à leur façon. Je voulais qu'ils sachent à quel point je les aimais.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt