Quotes About Self-defense

It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.

when people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. If we wish for a compassionate response from others, it is self-defeating to express our needs by interpreting or diagnosing their behavior. Instead, the more directly we can connect our feelings to our own needs, the easier it is for others to respond to us compassionately.

When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are not strengthening her prosocial sense;you are damaging it--and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

It's usually a good idea to warn bot/human constructs who call themselves Murderbot before making grabby hands.

You know, if you don't want to be manually eviscerated with your own energy weapon then maybe you shouldn't go around killing research transports and antagonizing rogue SecUnits.

there is much that you can do to protect yourself – and in doing so strengthen your nation.

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

If you recall our first meeting, you should remember that I need no help if I want to kill you with my bare hands. My friends are here to prevent me from doing that.

One of the worse things that could happen to a colored man was for him to be stranded by himself on a country road without a weapon.

a classic example of Robert Heinlein's famous saying, that an armed society is a polite society.

Then I remember I'd always been told, 'If a fellow's got so little manhood he'd hit a woman, it's up to that woman to relieve him of what few morsels of his masculinity remain.' I bent my knee and jammed my foot backward, up his crotch.

I'm not being defensive, I'm just defending myself.

In other words, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a criminal assault, an accidental death or injury, a suicide attempt, or a homicide than it is for self-defense.67

Psychoanalysis regards bed-wetting and fire-setting as well as cruelty to animals as a child's revenge and mental self-defence mechanism against parental abuse, be it physical, sexual or emotional.

Since no one wishes to become a weakling in the first place, it would make sense to turn to self-defence.

You must, therefore, know your limits of self-defence; so as not to cross the line of mercy and forgiveness.

Most of those men don't want to sleep with you," he said in blunt rebuttal. "I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.

For future reference, I am never, ever going to a ball again without a crossbow and a flamethrower.

When did you get so bossy, Ms. Baird?" "Self-defense against a certain T-Rex.

Taking out her gun, she turned to Monique. "You have any offensive capabilities? Know how to fire a weapon?" "My face and my body are my weapons, Guild Hunter." A hint of that upper-class sneer entered her tone. "Sex is about as physical as I get." "Bully for you." She slammed a fist on the garage door. "Hurry, Janvier!

The idea of ever again being caught unarmed and vulnerable was her worst nightmare.

A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine

If someone talks trash, you can just trash them back. Clamming up in a corner makes the thing half your fault." "[...] There are people out there who get crushed by that logic.

It would be so easy-my right hand on his right wrist, pull and step, left arm across his throat, whirl and spread my arms, like a dance, and he would drop spine-down over my thigh, snap: less than three seconds, start to finish-but a broken boy would help nothing.