Self-Defense Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Self-Defense Quotes from famous persons: Joe R. Lansdale, Luke Harding, Mel Brooks, B. J. Penn, Karl Liebknecht. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Self-Defense Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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My father was the first person to introduce me to self-

My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I’ve been doing all my life now.
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Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Jiu jitsu is a great art for self-defense. But jiu jitsu alone won‘t get you to a world championship in the UFC or even a winning record sometimes.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
Karl Liebknecht
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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it’s not self-defense. It’s an execution.
Stephen Carter
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Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
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One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked.
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Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses.
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The United States always maintains the right to self-defense.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It’s not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock ’em out the first chance I get.
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We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.
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The need for self-defense naturally exists outside and inside the home, I would hold the 2nd Amendment applies outside the home.
Thomas Hardiman
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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
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The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.
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We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
Huey Newton
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
Frederic Bastiat
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I’m grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
Olga Fonda
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The degree to which you’re peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
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As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.
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I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
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The script for ‘The Art of Self-Defense,’ to be fair, I knew going into it that it was going to be a hard movie to get made.
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I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn’t fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.
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I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn’t know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more – as long as I can eat what I want.
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.
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I have been in a ‘man‘s’ world as long as I can remember. I was an engineering major in college, I am a sports entertainer in the WWE, and I teach self-defense.
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You do not have the right to take another human‘s life, unless it’s in strict self-defense.
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We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people’s rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can’t be trusted.
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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.
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I remember being really young – being 13 or 14 – when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, ‘Don’t ever not be punk. Don’t ever not be punk.’ Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you’re most at risk.
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel’s right to preemptive self-defense.
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Joe Biden’s nomination of gun-grabber David Chipman, who wants to ban, confiscate, and destroy the most popular self-defense and hunting rifle in America owned by millions of American patriots, is a clear indication that the ATF’s war on gun owners is just beginning and is about to crank up.
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The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.