Self Defense Quotes - Page 4

• Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

  Khalil Gibran

  Time, Self, Stronger

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• Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Poison, Defense

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• What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

  Jeff Cooper

  Long, Felons, Action

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

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

  Joseph Story

  Gun, Tyrants, People

  Joseph Story (1865). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers”, p.264

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.812, Hamilton Books

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• I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

  Assata Shakur

  Determination, Believe, Self

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• No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.

  Rory Miller

  Fighting, Men, Intelligent

  Rory Miller (2014). “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence”, p.88, YMAA Publication Center, Inc.

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• Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Guitar, Musician

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.

  James Bovard

  Gun, Rights, Government

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• When your purpose and your occupation is giving confidence to people, teaching self defense, giving empowerment, teaching a positive lifestyle to other people, you tend to emit that yourself because you want to live what you preach and you want to preach what you live, and I'm just trying to do my best.

  Rener Gracie

  Teaching, Self, Mma

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• We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

  Jeff Cooper

  Justified, Victim, Persons

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

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• Abortion is an act of self-defense.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Abortion, Defense

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• Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

  Jeff Cooper

  Doe, Action, Appearance

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.14, Paladin Press

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• Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

  Motobu Choki

  Art, Self, Defense

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• Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.

  Ilana Mercer

  Mean, Gun, Self

  "Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer". praag.org. November 25, 2013.

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• Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Self, Defense

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Self

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• 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

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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• To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

  John Adams

  Men, Self, Hands

  "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government". Book by John Adams. Chapter 3: "Marchamont Nedham: Errors of Government and Rules of Policy", Sixth Rule, 1787.

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• Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Moral, Offensive, Combat

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Children, Father

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• I only direct in self-defense.

  Mel Brooks

  Self, Defense, Comedy

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• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
  neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... 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.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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