Quotes About Self-defense

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that's out in public, will keep himself, his staff, and, in some cases, the public safe.

People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.

My mother ran the household. In grade school, I came home crying one day. She said, 'What's wrong?' and I said, 'This kid said he was going to jump on me.' She grabbed me and slammed me on the floor. 'If you don't go out there and stand up for yourself, it's going to be me and you.' I didn't want that to happen.

Standing up for yourself. That's the thing martial artists aren't used to. You've got to really stick up for yourself and be a tough businessman when it's time for negotiations.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

These young folks say they can't leave home without their American Express, but nowadays I can't leave home without my pistol. I ain't used it in a while but I've been itching to.

In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier, the dominant power, has to justify what it's doing. There is only one way to do it—become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defense, you've lost your capacity to understand what's happening.

Among the many reasons for regarding the fabled American exceptionalism with some skepticism is that the doctrine appears to be close to a historical universal, including the worst monsters: Hitler, Stalin, the conquistadors; it is hard to find an exception. Aggression and terror are almost invariably portrayed as self-defense and dedication to inspiring visions.

The bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes to the average Arab citizen. Thus, Arab media never fail to be less than outrageous. They blamed the defeat on none other than Israel, as though self-defense and self-preservation was not a right to be exercised by the Jewish enemy.

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

I've got a black belt in tae kwon do." When she lowered into a fighting stance, Callen could only wonder. "I took it all through college." "And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap," Jessica added.

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

If you've never been in a fight, you wonder. About getting hurt, about what you're capable of doing against another man.

Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed." I write: i know girls who say that about their dildos.

Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed." I write: i know girls who say that about their dildos.

Was it counterintuitive to apply lessons from a women's self-defense book to the World Series of Poker? Yes. But if modernity has taught us anything, it's that you don't fuck with Oprah.

Apathy, the main symptom of the second phase, was a necessary mechanism of self-defense. Reality dimmed, and all efforts and all emotions were centered on one task: preserving one's own life and that of the other fellow.