Quotes About Self-defense

She shoved her can right under his chin. "Don't mess with seniors," she growled at him.

As I write these recollections of women who survived, I hope my readers are taking careful note of why they did. They screamed. They fought. They slammed doors in a stranger's face. They ran. They doubted glib stories. They spotted flaws in those stories. They were lucky enough to have someone step up and protect them.

The most basic bit of advice given to women who have to walk alone at night is, 'Look alert. Be aware of your surroundings and walk briskly. You will be safer if you know where you are going, and if anyone who observes you senses that.' The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure.

Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

Our God-given right to protect our country, ourselves and our families shouldn't be up for debate.

I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution.

The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

I would like to have my gun for protection.

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

I used to have a Milton steel water bottle that I would wield like a hammer, almost! My answer to all my bullies was to take out my bottle and hit them.

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.