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Quotes About Self-defense

If you ever get in a situation where you need to shoot somebody, point the gun and keep pulling the trigger until it stops shooting. Forget about rules or excessive violence or any of that. Just keep pulling.
~ John Sandford
There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way. Back home, this is very much not a good way to live.
~ John Scalzi
There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way.
~ John Scalzi
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
~ John Steinbeck
One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...
~ Johnny Depp
Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.
~ Rob Thurman
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
~ Fred Allen
My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.
~ Paige VanZant
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
~ Scott Thompson
Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!
~ Jeff Cooper
Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.
~ Imi Lichtenfeld
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.
~ Steven Erikson
We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.
~ Ronald Reagan
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
~ Louis L'Amour
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~ Marcus Sakey
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
~ Margaret Thatcher
My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.
~ Unknown
Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Freedom requires guns.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I need a taser or some pepper spray...Being a young lady getting off late isnt very safe...
~ Unknown
Never let yourself be the victim of a situation where you're helpless enough to forget how to protect yourself.
~ Unknown
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
~ Malcolm X
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
~ Marjane Satrapi