Quotes About Self-defense

You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!

Trapped behind the wall I've built around myself, unable to move or breathe or do anything but keep building it up around me, brick by brick, fast as I can.

One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.

Epigraph "I got a revolver to protect us." said Miss Constance, "and I soon had use for it." --New York Times, June 3 1915

Even the reverend did: visiting Martin Luther King in his parsonage, soon after his home had been bombed, a journalist was about to sink into an armchair when he was alerted to a couple of loaded guns on it. 'Just for self-defence,' King explained.

My definition of anger that emerges from this study is as follows: Anger is the physical, mental, and emotional arousal pattern that occurs in response to a perceived threat to the self characterized by the desire to attack or defend.

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

I am not ashamed to say I will speak up to defend myself.

Our military members should be able to defend themselves here and abroad.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

I believe in the right to defend yourself.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.

In school and college, there have been instances where I wish I knew how to defend myself.

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.

Don't drag the Mossad into political arguments. These are people who can't defend themselves.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

I don't want to elbow someone; I just defend myself.

I learned how to defend myself at the OSB, not physically but with words.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.