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Quotes About Self-defense

It's the referee's job to stop the fight. I'm in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
I got my first handgun license when I was 22.
~ Miranda Lambert
I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.
~ Luke Scott
Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?
~ Jack Lowden
According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.
~ Bill Cosby
A girl, whether in the industry or out of it, has to protect herself.
~ Tanushree Dutta
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
~ George Orwell
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
~ Raymond Chandler
In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.
~ Alvin Leung
They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless. Those deaths are going to hang over your head until you're so careful you make the saints of Perelandro weep.
~ Scott Lynch
Of course they were your friends, Locke. They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.
~ Scott Lynch
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
~ Scott Ritter
Ive been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
~ Daniella Alonso
You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
~ Tamora Pierce
By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
~ Veronica Roth
Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Ironically, the only two "relevan[t]" metrics that the Court does identify are "how and why" a gun control regulation "burden[s the] right to armed self-defense." In other words, the Court believes that the most relevant metrics of comparison are a regulation's means (how) and ends (why)—even as it rejects the utility of means-end scrutiny.
~ Stephen G. Breyer
Man without a gun has got no chance, Bob thought. Man has a gun, he has a chance.
~ Stephen Hunter
Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.
~ Stephen King
I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You can't hit someone if they're holding on to you.
~ David Haye
Tu quoque is the best defense.]
~ Gore Vidal
It's better to have a weapon and not need it, they'd told me more than once, than need it and not have it.
~ Gregory David Roberts