Quotes About Self-defense

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

An increase of only a degree or so in body temperature has been shown to slow the replication rate of viruses by a factor of two hundred—an astonishing increase in self-defense from only a very modest rise in warmth.

The question is important because if fever is a defense mechanism, then any effort to suppress or eliminate it may be counterproductive. Allowing a fever to run its course (within limits, needless to say) could be the wisest thing. An increase of only a degree or so in body temperature has been shown to slow the replication rate of viruses by a factor of two hundred—an astonishing increase in self-defense from only a very modest rise in warmth.

I was seriously hurt because of you. Seeing you in another guy's arms, kissing him.... His eyes grew hot and dark. It shredded me, Eva. Cut me open and left me bleeding. I kicked his ass in self defense.

Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work. It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself. I never! gasped Sarra, indignant. You taught me when you were murdered in your own house, Daine said quietly.

When they finally allowed the horses to slow to a walk, Vree dropped out of the saddle to stretch her legs. *We're going to forget how to get anywhere on our own two feet. Gonna end up looking like fat-assed officers.* Vree arched her back, rocked forward, then arched it again, working the stiffness out of her shoulders. *Giving the pounding it's taking, if my ass is getting fat, it's in self-defense.*

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

Other girls carried tasers or pepper spray for safety. Rosa had bought herself a stapler in a hardware store on the corner of Baltic and Clinton Streets. Her thinking was simple. An electric shock is nasty but leaves no marks. With her method, though, she could put two or three staples into any attacker's body. Then he'd have to stop and decide whether to tangle with her or start getting the staples out of his skin.

A strong girl no matter how girly she is, whether she loves unicorns and rabbits and wear sparkly stars in her hair and glitter nail polish, needs to know how to defend herself. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

If he was scared enough to try to kill me, it wasn't without a cause.", FADE by Kailin Gow

My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Iraqis must fight for their own country.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

Orson arrived at the school lugging his makeup box, and once after a bully had attacked him, Orson repaired to the school washroom where he applied makeup so his face would resemble a bloody pulp. The bully screamed and fled. After that he left Orson alone.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.

Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?