Quotes About Self-defense

Your natural instinct when people are throwing punches at you is to back up. That just makes it more dangerous for you. You'll get hurt that way. You've got to teach yourself to go forward, move your feet and move your head. I'm not going to lie, that was tough for me to learn.

Out of frustration and hopelessness our young people have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patience and turning the other cheek. We assert the right of self-defense by whatever means necessary, and reserve the right of maximum retaliation against our racist oppressors, no matter what the odds against us are.

Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Forget diamonds or dogs- a girls or boys best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Taking my cue from the progress of meditation, I have found that the first task of working through from a Buddhist perspective is to uncover how the spatial metaphor of self is being used defensively to keep key aspects of the person at bay.

Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.

But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison

sometimes the children from the school down the road see us in the street when we're getting off the bus and they shout, "Special Needs! Special Needs!" But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison.

But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison.

Fourth, it would make no sense for an inability to defend oneself by physical means to be a source of shame, while an inability to defend oneself by verbal means was not, since the use of words is more specifically human than the use of the body.

I have decided not to be an accomplice in my own oppression any longer, never again to hand men weapons with which to kill me.

I can feel every self-defensive instinct waking up. Because here's the thing I need to remember: life is good at the moment. And I'm not about to blight it by pining after a man. I'm not about to hope for impossible things. However well we seemed to work together.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

Her mother had fun ideas on how to raise a young lady, and they included handguns and karate as well as dancing and voice lessons.

More like I dreamed it. More like I zoned out in the movie as a form of self-defense, and in that zoned-out state I worked up this grand story for how your father, he killed your mother, Sheel, really, serious, I solved the case. Also, there is a case. As proof, of course, I could take a can from the pantry, it doesn't matter what, and mess with its angle in the can opener until it leaves sharp little slivers of metal behind. At

Persecution is only an attempt to do that overtly and with violence, which the community is, in self-defense, perpetually doing unconsciously and in silence. In many societies variation of belief is practically impossible. In other societies it is permitted only along certain definite lines. In no society that has ever existed, or could be conceived as existing, are opinions equally free (in the scientific sense of the term, not the legal) to develop themselves indifferently in all directions.

First rule of self-defense is: Don't ask your attacker for validation.

First rule of self-defense is: Don't ask your attacker for validation. Never apologize for sticking up for yourself.

Everyone is the defender of his own freedom.

Never underestimate the kick to the groin.

Everyone underestimates the kick to the groin.