Quotes about protection
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“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”

Jane Smiley (1949) American novelist

“She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Context: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)

“Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Herguardian."
"You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa?”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“… the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

People, Time, Parting

“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Truth, World, Dead

“Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron)
Really? (Jaden)
Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Reviewing Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power, p. 392
Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality"

Women, Men, Pain, Children

“The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.”

Wendy Shalit (1975) American writer

Source: A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

Women, Men, Understanding

“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

Motivation, Freedom, Loss, Help

“You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"- he laughed soundlessly and without any humor- "to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Family, Boy, Sister

“Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. “If you’re looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you’d be with me this morning.”
“Did he make you take a blood oath that you’d protect me?”
“He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

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

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oskar's grandmother to his grandfather after she told him of her pregnancy.
"My Feelings" (p. 180)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

Life, Happiness, Sadness, Feeling

“I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. --Second Ideal of the Knights Radiant”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.”

Dennis Lehane book Gone, Baby, Gone

Source: Gone, Baby, Gone

God, Children, World, Evil

“Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“There´s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak. That's just a part of life.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Life, Way, Parting

“Everything we need to know is locked up in your head, under those pretty red curls."
Clary reached up to touch her hair protectively. "I dont think-"
"So what are you going to do?" Simon asked sharply. "Cut her head open to get at it?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“When you were too young and naïve to see the risks, I incurred your wrath to protect you. Scream at me for it if you must. Thank me for it when you finally grow up.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Men, Fate, People

“Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”

David Gemmell book White Wolf

Source: White Wolf

Men, Lie, Strong, Evil

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love, People, Heart, Hurt

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Pain, Happiness

“If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

Books, Way, Wolf

“The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel, then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Happiness, People, Secret

“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Pain, Way, Hurt

“I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right."

—The law of Badger Lords”

Brian Jacques book Lord Brocktree

Source: Lord Brocktree

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

“Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 47: The Seal Destroyed

“Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Children, Past, Selfishness

“I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Breathing Room

“…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

“Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Sweet Surrender

Love, Men, Beauty

“I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.”
“Carter!”
But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Hate, Fools, Search

“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.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“He is just protective over me-”
“Not protective, Tania. Consumed.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'
They will remain protected,' Asha insists.
No, 'I say. 'Only untested.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, Pain, Heart, Parting

“The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.”

E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor

Death, Law, Idea

“Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Michael Carpenter My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: The Dresden Files, Death Masks (2003), Chapter 33

“I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve… I deserve to be someone's number one girl."

"You are."

"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Wall and Piece (2007)

“Now Bella, you know Jacob adores you. He naturally wants to protect you. He literally worships the ground you walk on."

"Ha ha," Bella said dryly. "Earth demon. Worship the ground. Cute. Really cute.”

Jacquelyn Frank (1968) writer

Source: Gideon

“Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Love, Life, Wisdom, Light

“Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.”

Lee Child book 61 Hours

Source: 61 Hours

Forgiveness, Hell, Forgetting

“The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.”

Sheri S. Tepper book Beauty

Source: Beauty

“Looks aren't all there is in the world, my lady. They are certainly no protection against being alone. Hearts never see through the eyes. (Sebastian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dragonswan

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Life, Understanding, Sleep, Evil

“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

Time, Personality

“No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: For Keeps

World, Sex, Teachers

“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

“… sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Michael Ondaatje book Divisadero

Source: Divisadero

Art, Personality

“All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Fairy Tail, Vol. 1

“The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Light, Night, Forgetting

“We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.”

Mary Connealy (1956) Author

Source: Sharpshooter in Petticoats

“Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 05

“This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”

John Steinbeck book The Pearl

Source: The Pearl

“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”

Larry Niven Ringworld series

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 96

“I have my books and my poetry to protect me”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”

Mohsin Hamid book Exit West

Source: Exit West

“I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

1963, Speech at Amherst College

Wisdom, Beauty, Nature, Past

“And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Love, Beauty, Music, Strong

“Inuyasha: Just shut up and let me protect you!”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

“It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.”

Gail Tsukiyama The Samurai's Garden

Source: The Samurai's Garden

“If it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world… We would make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“The mother… swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Children, Angels, Time, Animals

“All liars… lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”

Aminatta Forna book The Memory of Love

Source: The Memory of Love

Pain, Truth, Lie

“You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don’t want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Variant: Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
Source: The Three Musketeers

“We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

Secret, Fear, Silence, Suffering

“And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

“We’re meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from
the truth. That’s what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.
-Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars

“Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnSouled

“Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Drowning Instinct

“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Freedom, Country

“I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

“By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Love, School, Way, Guy

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

Paul Bowles (1910–1999) American composer, writer, translator

“Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Life, Pain, Truth, Way

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“finally has figured out there aren't enough quiet little British films around to protect her from the real world”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House