Self Defense Quotes - Page 7

• Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Israel, Self

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• An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Long, Chance

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

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• I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

  Akshay Kumar

  Art, Self, People

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• The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Self, President

  Boston Globe, December 20, 2007.

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• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

  William Kittredge

  Art, War, Believe

  William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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• My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Eye, Self

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• The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, Ghetto

  "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.

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• If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a very great concern right now about proliferation of nuclear weapons, as there should be. Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Israel, Self

  Source: progressive.org

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• A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

  Don Kates

  Life, Self, Defense

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• Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

  Jeff Cooper

  Attention, Pay, Behind You

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

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• You mostly.” Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for her. “The boys tended to take care of each other but you were too much for anyone else to handle.” I poked at the ball of yarn avoiding her eyes. “I wasn’t that bad.” She smiled. “You broke Ethan’s arm.” “It was self-defense. He wouldn’t let go of my foot.” “He was helping you tie your shoe.

  Rachel Vincent

  Letting Go, Eye, Boys

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.132, MIRA

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• I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Believe, Self

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• (God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Suicide, Strong, Military

  "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations". MEMRI TV, April 2004.

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• We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Self, Defense

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.200, Broadway Books

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• But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Self, Defense, Dangerous

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• To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof.

  George Washington

  Country, War, Fall

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• When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Self, Defense

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

  Jessica Biel

  Art, Hate, Self

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  Kari Matchett

  Sports, Running, Art

  Source: collider.com

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• Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fate, Self, People

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

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• My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At first I’d decided it was okay to wear as long as I shot only at supernatural bad guys who were already shooting at me. Lately, I’d had to broaden that definition to anytime my life was in danger. I was currently leaning toward a slightly more comprehensive rule somewhere between proactive self-defense and the-bastards-had-it-coming, which, if I survived long enough, I intended to blame on my deranged partner rubbing off on me.

  Karen Chance

  Self, Hands, Long

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.650, Penguin

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• You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

  Michael Moore

  Self, Defense, Strict

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• However, a Jedi who only fights in self defense and draws his lightsaber only to defend the innocent or to strike down his foe as quickly and painlessly as possible, that's what the lightsaber is for. That's what a Jedi is supposed to be. That's how it's supposed to go down. It's not supposed to be pretty or flashy. It's simply a necessary move. And that's it. Only the most necessary moves survive into the original Star Wars trilogy.

  Samuel Witwer

  War, Moving, Fighting

  Source: www.ign.com

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