Self Defence Quotes

“I think it's a response to terrorism. From the time we're little girls, we're taught to fear the bad man who might get us. We're terrified of being raped, abused, even killed by the bad man, but the problem is, you can't tell the good ones from the bad ones, so you have to wary of them all. We're told not to go out by ourselves late at night, not to dress a certain way, not to talk to male strangers, not to lead men on. We take self-defense classes, keep our doors locked, carry pepper spray and rape whistles. The fear of men is ingrained in us from girlhood. Isn't that a form of terrorism?”
― Sarai Walker, Dietland

“If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

“Je suis furieuse contre une société qui m'a éduquée sans jamais m'apprendre à blesser un homme s'il m'écarte les cuisses de forces, alors que cette même société m'a inculqué l'idée que c'était un crime dont je ne devais pas me remettre. Et je suis surtout folle de rage qu'en face de trois hommes, une carabine et piégée dans une forêt dont on ne peut s'échapper en courant, je me sente encore aujourd'hui coupable de ne pas avoir eu le courage de nous défendre avec un petit couteau.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Legacy of A Sensei

“Mais, à ce moment précis, je me suis sentie femme, salement femme, comme je ne l'avais jamais senti, comme je ne l'ai plus jamais senti. Défendre ma propre peau ne me permettait pas de blesser un homme.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

“I’d rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top.”
― Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Two

“Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.”
― Farrah Naseem

“Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone; let it be for the collective joy of your entire neighbourhood and beyond!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“If I ever ignored you, it was in self-defence.”
― Nitya Prakash

“When you don't have a voice, you can't stand up for yourself.”
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

“While they rested, beholding where the beast mantichora lay in his blood, Juss spake and said, “It is to be said of thee, O Brandoch Daha, that thou today hast done both the worst and the best. The worst, when thou wast so stubborn set to fare upon this climb which hath come within a little of spilling both thee and me. The best, whenas thou didst smite off his tail. Was that by policy or by chance?”

“Why,” said he, “I was never so poor a man of my hands that I need turn braggart. ’Twas handiest to my sword, and it disliked me to see it wagging.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“And the PRCS [Palestinian Red Crescent Society] had not lost just one hospital: thirteen clinics and nine hospitals all over Lebanon had been destroyed in this way. Only Gaza Hospital, for a reason I was to discover three years later, was still standing. At the height of the air raids, when the Palestinians found out that every single PRCS hospital and clinic was a bomb target, they put three Israeli soldiers captured in south Lebanon on the upper floors of Gaza Hospital, and radioed a message to the Israeli Army saying that any further military action on Gaza Hospital would result in Israeli lives being lost. That saved Gaza Hospital from further destruction.”
― Ang Swee Chai, From Beirut to Jerusalem

“Never underestimate the kick to the groin.”
― Bas Rutten

“Everyone underestimates the kick to the groin.”
― Bas Rutten

“In this impossible future, I would not have just murdered yet another man, Sahjara would break mighty stallions , Mr Thornfield would love me, and everyone would lose the look we had of folk waiting for the axe to fall.”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele

“Since no one wishes to become a weakling in the first place, it would make sense to turn to self-defence.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“You must, therefore, know your limits of self-defence; so as not to cross the line of mercy and forgiveness.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Resistance To Intolerance

“- Have you read a story of Solomon and Malik, Eve?
- Surprise me, of course I did.
- Did you believe in? Truly?
- No, but I'm not sure why are you asking now?
- Had he visit you? Have you ever heard from him?
- Never, I ' robbed his bank', I never heard back.
- He can't say a single word. He has been sealed.”
― Eve Janson, The Jinn Within - Run of Blood

“No legal system obliges people to sit passively and accept an unlawful attack upon themselves: there is always a right to take action in self-defence.”
― Vaughan Lowe, International Law: A Very Short Introduction

“Rorion used to say that when a person walks into a Jiu-Jitsu school they're never walking in thinking, I wonder if these guys can teach me to be a world champion. The first thing on the average person's mind when they walk into a martial arts school is self-defense. They're walking in because they want to learn how to defend themselves in a worst-case scenario out in the world. That's most people's underlying insecurity.”
― Richard Bresler, Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life

“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. The cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”
― Rory Miller, Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence

“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. They cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”
― Rory Miller, Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence

“Fight and flight in accord. Which one is happening is subject to change without notice.”
― Marc MacYoung, A Professional's Guide to Ending Violence Quickly: How Bouncers, Bodyguards, and Other Security Professionals Handle Ugly Situations

“Self-defense is much, much more than being able to fight. If you don’t think so, go out and just learn Jeet Kune Do. I’ll see you at your funeral.”
― Marc MacYoung, Cheap Shots, Ambushes, and Other Lessons: A Down and Dirty Book on Streetfighting and Survival

“Do you really believe that strength has anything to do with whether you win or lose? You will always be weaker. You will always be smaller and at a disadvantage. He is beating you because you are allowing him to define the terms of the contest. You want to win? Change the terms. Improvise, adapt, cheat. Lean into your strengths, not his.”
― Shay Hatten

“Self-defense is constantly blending many different aspects of life. It is the art of continuous kinetic balance. It is understanding your fellow human being as well as you understand yourself. It is knowing how your opponent thinks and weighing possibilities in your head. It is understanding that your opponent doesn’t think he’s a bad guy in his own eyes, and neither do you.”
― Marc MacYoung, Cheap Shots, Ambushes, and Other Lessons: A Down and Dirty Book on Streetfighting and Survival