Quotes About Self-defense

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

Girl, you're going to be all right. You haven't forgotten the essentials. You know about defending yourself. All you have to do now is remember … sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself.

It's one thing to protect yourself," Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. "That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?" I shrugged. "A seven-figure civil suit?

Kabul edilebilir tek savaÅŸ, kendini savunmak için yap?land?r ve her türlü savaÅŸta en büyük bedeli ödeyen masumlard?r

Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. [Chang Yu said: "Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

Although Margie/Margot's situation seems unlikely, it was informed by real events. The case of Brittany Smith, who in 2018 shot and killed her rapist and was subsequently indicted for murder, was covered in the national press. The only way for her to gain her freedom was to plead guilty, thus branding herself a felon.

informed by real events. The case of Brittany Smith, who in 2018 shot and killed her rapist and was subsequently indicted for murder

There is troubling evidence that dismissal on the grounds of self-defense is far more common for men than women.

He had firsthand knowledge of getting punched in the face, and it was an experience he didn't want to repeat.

To protect his life and to prevent any felony, an Englishman was free to inflict even a mortal wound on a would-be felon.

a person would need more than one good kick to stop a murderer.

This is how it happens, this is how you stop yourself feeling so much. You go cold, colder still with each disappointment, each betrayal until you find you've frozen over at the core of you and you stop feeling anything anymore.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder -- is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

People who have repeated a slander either get ashamed or forget it if they're let alone. Challenge them, and in self-defense they believe everything they've said; they'd rather believe you a sinner than believe themselves liars, naturally. Submit to gossip and you kill it, fight it, and you make it strong. People will forget almost any slander except the one that's been fought.