Self Protection

You have to get

You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly. Elizabeth Streb

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Therefore, to teach them

Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection. Fukuzawa Yukichi

Buddhism holds that everything

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit … Read more

While conservatism and self-protection

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth. Daisaku Ikeda

The de-eroticization of the

The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by the death of God and of the subordinate god, Eros. Allan Bloom

I know for me,

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination – the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination. Alison Rosen

Earth’s immune system –

Earth’s immune system – its rapid response team of self-protection – becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future. Alison Hawthorne Deming

All children are born

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection Alice Miller

We have to fulfill

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there’s no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc. Alan Dershowitz