Quotes About Self-defense

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves.

When a semi-stranger invites you inside to see her darkroom, any sensible human being would break the land speed record running in the other direction. However, with her perpetually present pocket pepper spray and a brown belt in theoretical jujitsu, Petula felt well able to protect herself should Ms. Planck turn out to be serving up local children in the beef ragout, like that lunch lady down in Phoenix.

and defend her life by taking out any scythes who tried to do it for him, with bullet, blade, and his own bare hands.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

From Obama to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and the rest of the media-political elite, the whole time they're attacking your right to own a gun, they're enjoying armed security for themselves.

I gave chase, and he took a shot at me, so I did the only thing I could in the circumstances…. I stabbed him in the shoulder.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.

preparedness to fight the aggressor generally prevents violence; and that even if the violence cannot be avoided, it is at least better to defend yourself than to surrender to aggression.

Now that I thought of it, perhaps whacking the burglar wasn't quite…necessary. It occurred to me that he said "Hi." I thought he did, anyway. He said hi. Do burglars usually greet their victims? Hi. I'd like to rob your house. Does that work for you?

As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights reported in its study of the racial implications of the law, the criminal justice system is "ten times more likely" to rule a homicide justifiable "if the shooter is white and the victim black" than if an African American kills someone white and claims self-defense. 32 In fact, the report notes, stand-your-ground laws actually worsen and increase the racial disparity outcomes of self-defense claims. 33

It denied the enslaved the right to bear arms; ignored the right to self-defense for Black people; and put in place a "large-scale military machinery," the militia, "to crack down [on] any conspiracies or uprisings." 15 As early as 1639, Virginia prohibited Africans from carrying guns because "what white Southerners feared the most … [was] an armed black man unafraid to retaliate against both the system of slavery and those who fought to defend it.

I agree that we can't be weak. We can fight when attacked, of course, but should we become the attackers?

Their school was taught by William Masters's brother, Samuel Masters, whom the children called "Uncle Sam." He was a tall, thin, bald man with bad breath and a worrying habit of fondling girls' hands. Laura protected herself by concealing a pin in her fingers and stabbing him with it. After that, she said, he left her alone.

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.

A free people ought...to be armed

personal safety. The solution lies in your mind. Your ability to detect danger, your reaction when you spot potential danger, and your reaction when an attack finally happens. These aspects of personal security can only be learned through self-defense training.

With these skills, you can go for years without ever meeting a situation where you have to defend yourself.

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

What, like you didn't think I'd have a second knife? Fucking idiot.

Man ain't safe going around this country anymore without a gun.

Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.