Quotes About Self-defense

Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.

You know what I really want?' Bruce said. 'Some business cards with Bruce Norris Kicked Your Arse printed on them. I can stick them in people's mouths when I knock them unconscious, just in case they don't remember me when they come round.' 'Bruce, what you need,' Kyle said, 'is some serious time with a psychiatrist.

If someone picks up a third party and throws him at you down at the bottom of a deep well...may you use your ray gun to disintegrate the falling body before it crushes and kills you?

Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I

Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

I think it's very simple that the whole idea of debating whether or not Negroes should defend themselves is an insult.

When evil takes up to violence, the good have no choice but to defend themselves.

He'd taken out one of them with well-placed elbow strikes and got another guy in a leg lock that probably wrecked the son of a bitch's knee for life, but Alec had no finesse with that last moron. He just slammed that fucker's head on the concrete and grounded-and-pounded with all he had. Might have killed him. Wouldn't

Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against others. There is, in fact, no talking to some people. If they cannot be captured, and they often cannot, otherwise tolerant people may be justified in killing them in self-defense.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

today we found out what happens when a bad guy with a gun meets a good guy with a gun.

Gilbert, as a rule, used money the way women use pepper spray; he liked having some handy but only produced it when physically threatened.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

I always write with my .357 Magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.

I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to pull someone down to the ground, it looks and feels natural for me.

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

You come to me and punch me in my face I'm going to protect myself.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

Americans have a right to obtain firearms for lawful purposes.