Self Defense Quotes - Page 5

• When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. It's important that when we address somebody that we're clear what we want back.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Self, People

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• It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

  Jeff Cooper

  Matter, Knows, Ifs

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• Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

  Jeff Cooper

  Essence, Speed, Form

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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• Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Self, Germany, Defense

  tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.

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  When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fighting, Exercise, Government

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• Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Fighting, Self

  "Undercard debate on economy". Republican debate, www.cbsnews.com. November 10, 2015.

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• It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.

  Eric Holder

  Home, Self, Law

  "Holder speaks out against 'Stand Your Ground' laws after Zimmerman verdict" by Pete Williams and Tracy Connor, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2013.

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Self, Black

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• The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Lying, Self, Defense

  Mary Ritter Beard (1920). “A Short History of the American Labor Movement”

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• 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

  Gun, Self, Defense

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.71, Penguin

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• The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Perfect, Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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• A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Beautiful, Art, Fighting

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Exercise

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• I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

  Amber Heard

  Running, Class, Self

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

  Rick Scott

  Government, Self, Law

  "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.

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• When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Delay, Bears, Action

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.20, Paladin Press

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• Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Gun, Government

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• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

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• Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
  nor can it be denied the community,
  even against the king himself.

  William Barclay

  Kings, Equality, Self

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• I've always wanted to take self-defense classes and I never did, for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know if it was fear or time, or whatever stops people from doing things that they want to do.

  Zoey Deutch

  Self, Class, People

  Source: collider.com

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• To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Taken, Intelligent, Self

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• This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

  Samuel Untermyer

  Recovery, Mean, Self

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• The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Self, Psychics

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• The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

  Massad Ayoob

  Predator, Way, Cages

  "An Interview With A Lethal Man". Interview with Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.freerepublic.com. February 8, 2005.

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• In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Defense, Sin

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