Self Defense Quotes - Page 3

• Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Mean, Self

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• The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can.

  Nancy Werlin

  Strong, Philosophy, Reading

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• If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.

  Jeff Cooper

  Felons, Lives Of Others, Can Do

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

  Robert F. Williams

  Self, Principles, Defense

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• For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Men, Strong Arms

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• Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

  Jeff Cooper

  Doe, Defense, Environment

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Honor, Coward

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Leader

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• When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
  is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
  to be mourned,
  but as an act of citizenship,
  to be vaunted,
  there is little civilian life left.

  Jill Lepore

  Self, Defense, Littles

  "Battleground America". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2012.

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• If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Psychics, Defense

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• Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Gun, Self, Law

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• For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Self, Soldier, Defense

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

  Martin J. Whitman

  Numbers, Luck, Technique

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• I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Believe, Self

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

  Rory Miller

  Scare, Submission, Easier

  Rory Miller (2014). “Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected”, p.121, YMAA Publication Center, Inc.

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• Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Defense, Revolutionary

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• The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Self, Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

  Ron Paul

  Self, Defense, Use

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Defense

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

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• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  Barry Eisler

  Art, Gun, Thinking

  "After the CIA, Barry Eisler writes thrillers" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Gun, Law

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• Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.

  Jeff Cooper

  People, Trying, Criminals

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Self, Healthy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Self, Intellectual

  Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press

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• No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

  James Burgh

  Gun, Thinking, People

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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