Quotes About Self-defense

I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the gun control disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything.

Her friend Alex would have had a gun in her purse. Elaina would disable the guy with a few martial arts moves. But Mia didn't own a gun—much less carry one—and she couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag.

How many times is a woman allowed to defend herself? In Polly's experience, not even once.

Silence was the key to self-preservation.

Flying daggers don't kill people, Chloe thought, leaping sidewise at the last minute to avoid one, grabbing the pedestrian rail. People kill people.

AT THIS POINT we may have come to the conclusion that we should drop the whole game of spiritual materialism; that is, we should give up trying to defend and improve ourselves. We may have glimpsed that our struggle is futile and may wish to surrender, to completely abandon our efforts to defend ourselves. But how many of us could actually do this? It is not as simple and easy as we might think. To what degree could we really let go and be open? At what point would we become defensive?

Nobody picks on a strong man.

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.

Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' "I don't want anything to happen to you," he said urgently. "What you want does not matter here," I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I'll kill you.

it's pretty hard for a bully to give you a triple nipple cripple if he's doubled over

I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.