#protection

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#everywhere #life #property #protection #real

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#battle #concept #decisive #engage #internationalism

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#decision #example #for example #go #institutions

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#been #deployed #developing #itself #looking

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#guns #ideas #life #plans #protection

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#bring #controlled #cut #economy #ideas

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else? ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#anger #anger-management #defence #defensive-device #mirror

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#bill-of-rights #constitution #evil #freedom #good-and-evil

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#life #life-and-living #living #living-life #opinions

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile. ↗

— Holly Black

#family #honor #life #loyalty #mafia