Self Defense Quotes
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Self Defense Quotes & Sayings
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Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom.
— Mark Driscoll
Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Don't entertain others at the expense of your reputation.
— Bohdi Sanders
The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...
— Mary Ritter Beard
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
— Gloria Steinem
Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense ...
— Elizabeth Warren
We don't like it when women get uppity." "Well," she said, "that is a bit of a problem, as I am feeling quite uppity. — Sarah MacLean
Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.
— Motobu Choki
Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
— Kahlil Gibran
On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
— Jeff Cooper
Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
— Jeff Cooper
I got into cooking out of self-defense.
— Mark Bittman
Abortion is an act of self-defense.
— Alice Walker
Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.
— Farrah Naseem
Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense.
— Brian Hodge
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
— Barton Gellman
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
— George Orwell
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
— John Dryden
Almost doesn't count.
— R. Felini
I only direct in self-defense.
— Mel Brooks
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.
— Samuel Untermyer
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.
— Frederick Lenz
Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you. Nan-The Otherside
— Ashley Jeffery
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
— Margaret Edson
Nice girls, nice women, don't survive violent attacks.
— David R. Wommack
That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defensewhat happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. — Dag Hammarskjold
The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.
— Manning Brennan
I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.
— Richelle Mead
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.
— Rory Miller
Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it's a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.
— Rorion Gracie
Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
— Ronald Reagan
Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
— John Barrasso
People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.
— David W. Earle
The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
— Karl Liebknecht
No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying
— Friedrich Engels
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
— Astrid Lindgren
Close-up violence it's like a tornado hitting you at 200 mph without warning. It takes all your preparation, fierceness to survive. — David R. Wommack
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
— Woody Allen
I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.
— Randy Alcorn
If someone hates you so much that they try to hurt you, defending yourself is not being aggressive, it is doing what's necessary.
— Charles F. Glassman
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
— Eugene H. Peterson
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
— Laurence Tribe
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.
— Jeff Cooper
Self-defenses mean self-defense, period. It leave nothing out.
— Bohdi Sanders
Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
— Georg Buchner
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
— Susan Sontag
Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved
— Winston Churchill
Self-defense ... is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack.
— Jeff Cooper
Emotional self-defense ... Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, "no" to others.
— Steve Maraboli
The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.
— Robert F. Williams
My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.
— Paige VanZant
The best form of self defense is to become invisible ... If you can't do that learn Wing Chun! — Wong Shun Leung
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
— Ida B. Wells
Without the right to defend yourselfand the right to possesss the means to do it
all other supposed rights are so much hot air. — James Carlos Blake
This guy makes my head spin. He's just so reasonable. I don't have any defense against it. Against him and his damn sexy self. Damn it.
— Kristen Callihan
Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause deserves no consideration.
— Jeff Cooper
There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant.
— Craig De Ruisseau
One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.
— Richard Brookhiser
