Rory Miller Quotes

• The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

  Rory Miller

  Gun, People, Evil

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• It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

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  Wall, Teenager, School

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• It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.

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  Running, Fighting, Self

  "Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence". Book by Rory Miller, 2008.

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• Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

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  Hurt, Butterfly, Scream

  Rory Miller (2014). “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence”, p.157, YMAA Publication Center, Inc.

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• Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

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  Running, Fighting, Dies

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• Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

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  Rules Of Life, Happens, Picks

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

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

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  Scare, Submission, Self Defense

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

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• The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.

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  Dream, Dreamer, Ifs

  "Interview: Rory Miller, Detentions Specialist and Conflict Expert". Video Q&A, www.ikigaiway.com. June 18, 2013.

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